In What's a Black Critic to Do II, literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse once again gathers together profiles, reviews, interviews, and essays that examine race, culture, and multiculturalism through the lens of literature. This collection, featuring well-known writers, such as Lawrence Hill, Afua Cooper, Christopher Paul Curtis, Natasha Trethewey, Toni Morrison, David Chariandy, Joseph Boyden, and Kwame Dawes. What's a Black Critic to Do II is of especial interest to black readers as well as teachers, librarians, and book clubs. This companion to 2003's What's a Black Critic to Do? constitutes a candid conversation about race in an ostensibly "post-racial" world.
This collection of profiles, interviews, essays and reviews on such well-known writers as Ken Burns, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke and Edwidge Danticat constitutes a frank conversation on the significance of race in the work of contemporary Black artists.
Donna Bailey-Thompson is a freelance writer and editor. During the 1990s she published Challenges, a national monthly magazine directed to anyone in recovery from anything, which grew to absorb Growthline, a similar recovery publication. She is preparing a collection of her Get A LifeTM columns and a book of vignettes from real lifehers.
New Way is a phonics series with a straightforward progression from pre-reading level through Key Stage 1. It is based around platform and core books, with additional resources provided at every level.
In Black Girls critic Donna Bailey Nurse reflects on prominent black women writers from across the diaspora. It's a personal take on how their works have deepened her understanding of what it means to be a black woman in the world."--
This series of Child-to-Child Readers focuses on the rights of the Girl Child. The stories encourage children to reflect on the way that girls - and boys - are treated in their families and communities.
The essence of this book chronicles the plight of an African American family beginning in 1864. Sarah, a nine-year old slave girl was determined to retain her identity by preserving the ancestral serge that pumped her heart, the African blood of kings and queens from which she was desendant. Sarah found solace in D'lawd. Her worship hosts a plethora of characters moreover; paralleling their lives to the Church Hats they bore atop their heads. Sarah's conviction empowers seven generations through historical events and the perpetual anticipation of a birth of promise, a legendary emanicpator who would finally and fully liberate her people and free them from 'da troubles of dis world.
Discusses the process of digestion, the parts of the digestive system that make it possible, and related topics such as food and its importance to good health.
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