Stories of unity and hope in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The author shares her experiences from her travels to New Orleans following the Category 5 hurricane.
Publisher's Note: From A Black Perspective is the beginning manifestation of several collective dreams. Volume One, "The Blood," features five up and coming authors. As a whole, the project is a gathering of entertaining, inspirational, and educated voices modeled after the collective creative literary power of the long-celebrated Harlem Renaissance. From a Black Perspective is a celebration of the diversity within the black literary community. It serves as an antithesis to the notion that the black community is monolithic in our interests, values, political views, and the genres in which we write but rather a people as varied as the hues of our skin. This three-part anthology affords Rainbow Room Publishing, LLC to fulfill one of its primary objectives: providing a vehicle and platform to facilitate the publication of as many diverse and otherwise underrepresented voices as possible. Your support of this project further enables the publication of each contributing author's individual creative and publishing efforts while supporting numerous black voices. We invite you to embark with us on this three-part literary journey and encourage you to reserve space on your bookshelves for Volume Two, "The People," highlighting more talented writers as well as more individual works from each of these published authors in 2021 and Volume Three, "The Homeland" in 2022.
Publisher's Note: From a Black Perspective is the beginning manifestation of several collective dreams.Volume One, "The Blood," features five up-and-coming authors. As a whole, the project is a gathering ofentertaining, inspirational, and educated voices modeled after the collective creative literary power ofthe long-celebrated Harlem Renaissance.From a Black Perspective is a celebration of the diversity within the Black literary community. It serves asan antithesis to the notion that the Black community is monolithic in our interests, values, politicalviews, and the genres in which we write but rather a people as varied as the hues of our skin. This three-part anthology affords Rainbow Room Publishing, LLC to fulfill one of its primary objectives: providinga vehicle and platform to facilitate the publication of as many diverse and otherwise underrepresentedvoices as possible.Your support of this project further enables the publication of each contributing author's individualcreative and publishing efforts while supporting numerous Black voices. We invite you to embark with uson this three-part literary journey and encourage you to reserve space on your bookshelves for VolumeTwo, "The People," highlighting more talented writers as well as more individual works from each ofthese published authors in 2021 and Volume Three, "The Homeland" in 2022. Eddie S. PierceFounder & PublisherRainbow Room PublishingFor more information on Rainbow Room Publishing, LLC, our products and services visit: www.rainbowroompublishing.com
A severe black cloud churns in the sky and drops suddenly to the earth. The enormous tornado speeds toward town, destroying everything in its path. Dreams lie in ruins. Loved ones are whisked away into eternity. Is anything in this world really shatterproof? You will be touched as you enter the lives of characters who experienced catastrophes in the deadly tornado outbreaks of 2011 and faced the aftershock with courage and faith.
A rollicking rhyming story about a family who dance up a wild storm while the wind and rain swirl outside. Rhythm, rhyme and family mayhem. Perfect for reading aloud, this playful, energetic story will have young children leaping into action. When a sunny day at the beach turns stormy, a little girl runs for cover. Her daddy and brothers are wild in the wind and lightning, and her poppy is as loud as thunder. They fill the house with stamping and crashing while Granny plays piano to their riotous thunderstorm dancing. until the storm passes and they all fall down. Then, in the stillness, the girl is ready to play. What will she be, now that the rain has stopped and there's a glimmer of sunlight?
Katrina Irving's close reading of novels by Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Harold Frederic, and Frank Norris discloses the portrayal of immigrant women, especially immigrant mothers, as a reflection of larger cultural anxieties. In the wake of economic retooling and Fordist mechanization, Irving maintains, immigrants became feminized others against which native Anglo-American virility could be aggrandized."--BOOK JACKET.
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