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The Assassination of the Black Male Image

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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The Assassination of the Black Male Image

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A compelling expose of the truth behind society's racial and sexual stereotypes of black men, this book offers a wide historical perspective and insights into such recent racially charged events as the Clarence Thomas hearings, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the Million Man March. Hutchinson brilliantly counters the image of black men as a population entrenched in crime, drugs, and violence.

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0684836572

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From King to Obama

Witness to a Turbulent History

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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From King to Obama

Witness to a Turbulent History

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From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History conveys the exhilaration the author feels at having walked in the shadow of history of a Dr. King, a Miles Davis, a John Lennon, a Bob Marley, and many others. Hutchinson's mission is to make the reader feel the exhilaration he felt meeting, talking with, interviewing and personally engaging with as a journalist, broadcaster, and activist the people whose monumental accomplishments affected the lives of millions over a half century from the mid-1960s to the first decade of the 21st Century.

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0692370714

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9780692370711

50 Years Later

Why the Murder of Dr. King Still Hurts

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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50 Years Later

Why the Murder of Dr. King Still Hurts

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The book will assess the lingering doubts and disbelief about the official version of the murder of Dr. King and how that shaped events of the next fifty years, the monumental affect the King led movement had on politics, heightened awareness of poverty, GOP and Democratic presidents from Kennedy and Nixon through Reagan and Obama, the influence on other change movements globally and in America, Hispanics, Women, and Gay Right, and changes in civil rights leadership. It will pose and tackle the poignant question King raised, ¿Where Do We Go From Here.¿

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1881032019

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9781881032014

A Skeptic's Journey Through the Yoga Experience

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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A Skeptic's Journey Through the Yoga Experience

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A Skeptic's Journey through the Yoga Experience takes a hard and personal look by one who once held deep skepticism about yoga at the history, the myths, the controversies, the practice, the philosophy, the growth, commercialism of, and impact of yoga. The book examines the racial and gender conceptions and controversies that confront yoga, as well as the controversy and debate over the physical hazards of yoga to men especially. A Skeptic's Journey Through the Yoga Experience is a small primer that aims to give a skeptic's impressions of some of the hot button issues and controversies in the yoga world-gender, race.physical hazards, men, and women, commercialism, and the future. It in no way pretends to be a comprehensive and definitive study of yoga. The author intersperses throughout the book the three years of notes in his journal that gives his reflections, insights, feelings, and thoughts about the various poses, movements, and mental and physical changes and benefits of yoga.

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0578194082

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9780578194080

A Yogi's Guide to Body Pride at Any Age

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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A Yogi's Guide to Body Pride at Any Age

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Noted political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson he steps out of his role as a commentator on political and social issues and in A Yogi's Guide to Body Pride at Any Age, he takes a hard look at the flash point controversies within the yoga, health, wellness, and even body building worlds. He takes us on a journey from his overcoming health, weight and body image challenges to his embrace of body pride and wellness. But he does more in this new and dynamic book. He explores the issues of gender, race, religion, the social and cultural biases toward aging and physical exercise in relation to older men and women. These issues have been the subject of fierce debate. One issue in particular that has been especially prickly and garnered much attention in recent years has been the issue of body shaming especially in relation to seniors. A Yogi's Guide to Body Pride at Any Age weighs in heavily on the side of those who say no to body shaming, and yes to body pride for seniors.

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1881032043

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The Myth of Black Capitalism

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By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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The Myth of Black Capitalism

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In his 1970 book The Myth of Black Capitalism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson laid out a rigorous challenge to the presumption that capitalism, in any shape or form, has the potential to rectify the stark injustices endured by Black people in America. Ofari engaged in a diligent historical review of the participation of African Americans in commercial activity in this capitalist country, demonstrating conclusively that the creation of a class of Black capitalists failed to ameliorate the extreme inequity faced by African Americans. Even "Buy Black" campaigns which aimed to "keep resources in the community," he showed, reinforced a Black bourgeoisie which often enough exploited the Black underclass to increase their own wealth. Whether Black capitalists dared to go up against, or merely tried to find their place amongst, giant monopoly corporations, Ofari argued they would make little substantive progress in the lives of Black people. And whether calls for "Black capitalism" came from within the Black Power movement for Black economic autonomy, or were appropriated by the old-line Black elite, in the end the promotion of the myth of "black capitalism" was a project of the Black elite which solely served the interests of the capitalist managerial class"--

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NYU Press

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1685900313

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The Emerging Black GOP Majority

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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The Emerging Black GOP Majority

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Emerging Black GOP Majorityis a comprehensive examination of the Republican Party's past, present, and future efforts to break the Democratic Party's lock on the black vote. It presents an in-depth look at the GOP's successes and failures, and assesses the pitfalls and possibilities of its outreach efforts among black voters. The book presents a fresh look at a crucial area of American politics and race.

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Black GOP Majority

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1881032191

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Why Black Lives Do Matter

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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Why Black Lives Do Matter

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Why Black Lives Do Matter is a laser look at the same devastating affect of those same racial stereotypes of Backs. It examines how racial typecasting continues to feed the widespread public belief that Blacks are victimizers and not victims. This has stifled public debate and enabled political inaction, if not outright resistance, to meaningful solutions to the problem of racial victimization in American society. The devaluation of Black lives has truly been a chronic, painful, and all consuming American dilemma that screams for an end. In a small way, Why Black Lives Don't Matter intends to further that aim.

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1881032035

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ITS OUR MUSIC TOO

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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ITS OUR MUSIC TOO

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Groundbreaking Book Explores the Black Impact on Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson meticulously details in his It's Our Music Too The Black Experience in Classical Music the black impact on classical music. Hutchinson notes that there are numerous books which have dissected and re-dissected every possible aspect of classical music-the composers, performers, their compositions, the musical structure, the history, and even the gossip and minutiae about the composers and performers. Yet, there are almost no books that focus on the significant part that black composers and performers played in influencing and in turn being influenced by classical music "The list of Africans, African-Americans and Afro-European composers, conductors, instrumental performers, and singers," says Hutchinson, "is and always has been, rich, varied, and deep. Sadly, the recognition of this has almost always come in relation to the work of a major European or white American composer." Hutchinson's aim in It's Our Music Too The Black Experience in Classical Music is not to update a book on blacks and classical music, or list the many notable individual breakthroughs of top flight black classical music performers and composers through the years. Instead he tells the story of how blacks have actually influenced the development, history and structure of classical music in its major varied forms; opera, chamber pieces, symphonies, and concertos. It's a story that's filled with tragedy and triumph, heart break and heroism. Hutchinson gives an exciting and entertaining glimpse into Mozart's "borrowing" a musical idea from the black violin virtuoso Chevalier Saint-Georges in the eighteenth century, Dvorak's basing a major part of his New World Symphony on Negro Spirituals in the nineteenth century, and composers such as Gershwin, Copeland. Stravinsky and Ravel, wildly embracing jazz and blues in some of their popular and acclaimed works in the twentieth century. It's Our Music Too The Black Experience in Classical Music is a fast paced, reader friendly, easy to understand look at just exactly what and how the greats in classical music have borrowed from and paid homage to jazz, blues, ragtime, boogie woogie and Negro spirituals. "Throughout I name and recommend many pieces to listen to by the greats of classical music," notes Hutchinson, "who were directly inspired by black musical forms as well as the works of black composers who have written exceptional works that have influenced the works of other classical composers." Hutchinson also tells how black performers such as Roland Hayes with his unique interpretations of German leider, and Marian Anderson and Jessye Norman with their distinctive tones and vibrant, fresh renderings of, and subsequent path breaking performances in the major works of opera giants, Giuseppi Verdi and Richard Wagner have greatly altered how these master's works are heard today. It's Our Music Too The Black Experience in Classical Music, takes the reader on an exciting, eye opening, and revealing journey through the world of classical music in which the major critics, composers and performers tell in their words their appreciation of the major contribution blacks made to classical music. "It is no exaggeration or overstatement to say that classical music does owe a debt to the black experience in classical music," says Hutchinson, "And the goal is to show music lovers and readers how that debt continues to be paid in concert halls everywhere.

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Middle Passage Press

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0692781870

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9780692781876

The Russia Probe

What Did Trump Know, and When Did He Know It?

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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The Russia Probe

What Did Trump Know, and When Did He Know It?

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Russia Probe: What Did Trump Know, And When Did He Know It? takes a hard, wide ranging look at what¿s known and what still remains to be answered about Trump, the Russians, how America¿s most important election could be subverted, and what the consequences of that are for American politics present and future.

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1881032027

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The Emerging Black GOP Majority

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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Black GOP Majority

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The Assassination of the Black Male Image

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Betrayed

A History Of Presidential Failure To Protect Black Lives

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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A History Of Presidential Failure To Protect Black Lives

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In this timely and eye-opening book, noted political analyst and media commentator Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson traces the root cause of the White House's failure to protect the rights of African Americans. Drawing extensively from public and private presidential papers, private correspondence, personal interviews, and national archive documents, Hutchinson gives a rich historical account of the racial philosophy, policies, and practices of successive presidents from Warren G. Harding to Bill Clinton. Franklin D. Roosevelt is one example. The popular view is that Roosevelt was a Mend to blacks because of his enactment of New Deal programs. But he was also a prisoner of the biased racial thinking of his times. He refused to actively support antilynching legislation and repeatedly curried political favor with racist southern Democrats. Lyndon B. Johnson is yet another example. He is known as a champion of civil rights, but Hutchinson details two crucial moments when Johnson shrank from using the full force of executive power to push Congress to enact new and tougher federal criminal civil rights statutes to punish racist violence. In this book, Hutchinson reveals that no American president has ever signed into law a federal antilynching bill despite a 50-year campaign by the NAACP for presidential and congressional action. He documents how Nixon, Reagan, and Bush rolled back civil rights and affirmative action, failed to fully enforce equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment against police abuse and racial violence, encouraged conservative legal obstructionism, and fueled the rise of a repressive domestic security state. These actions in turn have reinforced institutionalized racism and continued the historical pattern of devaluing black lives in law and public policy. Finally, Hutchinson warns that the century-old failure by the White House to enforce federal law to protect black lives still has dangerous consequences for American society.

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Routledge

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0429720726

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9780429720727

Beyond O.J.

Race, Sex, and Class Lessons for America

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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Beyond O.J.

Race, Sex, and Class Lessons for America

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Presents a framework for community economic development, showing community groups and leaders how to develop and promote ideas and actions for development, and how to adapt the framework for several different approaches. Offers strategies for training and organizing volunteers, understanding government regulations and environmental concerns, developing sites to attract visitors, funding projects, and building networks between associations, agencies, and individuals. Includes numerous checklists and tips. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Black Rose Books Ltd.

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1551640503

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9781551640501

The Myth of Black Capitalism

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By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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Deciphers the history of “Black capitalist” rhetoric— and how it serves to enrich a minuscule few at the expense of the many In his 1970 book The Myth of Black Capitalism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson laid out a rigorous challenge to the presumption that capitalism, in any shape or form, has the potential to rectify the stark injustices endured by Black people in America. Ofari engaged in a diligent historical review of the participation of African Americans in commercial activity in this capitalist country, demonstrating conclusively that the creation of a class of Black capitalists failed to ameliorate the extreme inequity faced by African Americans. Even “Buy Black” campaigns which aimed to “keep resources in the community,” he showed, reinforced a Black bourgeoisie which often enough exploited the Black underclass to increase their own wealth. Whether Black capitalists dared to go up against, or merely tried to find their place amongst, giant monopoly corporations, Ofari argued they would make little substantive progress in the lives of Black people. And whether calls for “Black capitalism” came from within the Black Power movement for Black economic autonomy, or were appropriated by the old-line Black elite, in the end the promotion of the myth of “Black capitalism” was a project of the Black elite which solely served the interests of the capitalist managerial class. It was Richard Nixon who first introduced the notion of “Black capitalism” into mainstream American discourse, coopting the term at a time when African Americans comprised only 3% of the nation’s employers. That number dwindled thereafter, and yet the term only gained cachet following the election of Barack Obama and the increased visibility of the Black elite. Thankfully, just as the rhetoric of ‘Black capitalism” is being resuscitated, it is being confronted once more. In this second edition of Earl Ofari’s pathbreaking book, a Monthly Review Press classic, the author adds a new Introduction, which shows both the enduring strength of the ideology of Black capitalism and its continued inability to change the nature of what has always been a racialized system of production and distribution. Ofari reveals “Black capitalism" for what it really is: a diversion from the struggle for liberation that works at cross purposes with the fight against exploitation, and a fantasy which enriches a minuscule few at the expense of the many. The Myth of Black Capitalism argues definitively that only a direct assault on the oppression of Black people and the capitalist system itself can bring this exploitation to an end.

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168590033X

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Beethoven and Me

A Beginner's Guide to Classical Music

By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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A Beginner's Guide to Classical Music

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Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson is best known as an African-American commentator on politics, race and social issues. Yet, for decades he has inhabited another world that seemingly is as far removed from the day's political and social conflicts that he specializes in discussing and writing about as the sun and the moon. It's the world of Western Classical Music. He has long had an enduring love and passion for the music and has written and commented about it on his radio shows and in his columns. Now, in his forthcoming book, Beethoven and Me: A Beginner's Guide to Classical Music, Hutchinson breaks through a hard barrier that has long separated politics and social commentary from music, in this case classical music. He shares his many personal experiences in concert halls and his observations about the world of classical music. Beethoven and Me: A Beginner's Guide to Classical Music is a fast paced, easy to understand survey of the music's well-known and not so well-known composers, their music and their struggles for recognition. He brings a fresh and his very personal perspective in discussing them and their music. Hutchinson makes it easy for the reader by deliberately minimizing using technical terms and language. Throughout the book, he provides the reader with a highly personal running commentary of his experiences in front of and behind the orchestra stage during two decades of active listening and commenting on classical music. Along the way, he details the influence and struggles of African-American, Hispanic and women composers in the classical music world who more often than not have been shamefully neglected or marginalized in the classical music tradition. Beethoven and Me: A Beginner's Guide to Classical Music is Hutchinson's personal, and very selective, impressionistic walk through the history, tradition and experience of classical music. It's a primer written for a very beginning listener. Hutchinson has boldly stepped out of his role as a political and social commentator to show that music and the compelling social issues of the day need not be separate.

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0692508171

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The Assassination of the Black Male Image

The Assassination of the Black Male Image

From King to Obama

From King to Obama

50 Years Later

50 Years Later

A Skeptic's Journey Through the Yoga Experience

A Skeptic's Journey Through the Yoga Experience

A Yogi's Guide to Body Pride at Any Age

A Yogi's Guide to Body Pride at Any Age

The Myth of Black Capitalism

The Myth of Black Capitalism

The Emerging Black GOP Majority

The Emerging Black GOP Majority

Why Black Lives Do Matter

Why Black Lives Do Matter

ITS OUR MUSIC TOO

ITS OUR MUSIC TOO

The Russia Probe

The Russia Probe

The Emerging Black GOP Majority

The Emerging Black GOP Majority

The Assassination of the Black Male Image

The Assassination of the Black Male Image

Betrayed

Betrayed

Beyond O.J.

Beyond O.J.

The Myth of Black Capitalism

The Myth of Black Capitalism

Beethoven and Me

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