Krystal Wade's Books

Telling Blackness

Young Liberians and the Semiotics of Contemporary Diaspora

By: Krystal Smalls

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Telling Blackness

Young Liberians and the Semiotics of Contemporary Diaspora

By: Krystal Smalls

Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particularities of Blackness; and accounts of Black life often miss the significance of the smallest and subtlest acts that sustain it. With this introduction of raciosemiotics, Smalls remaps the field of semiotic anthropology around the specificities of race and the body, and remaps contemporary Black diaspora through the embodied significations of a group of young Liberian women in the US. This transdisciplinary ethnographic account of their lives helps us reimagine their talk, twerks, and tweets as "tellings" that exceed our understandings of narrative and that potentially act on the world of meaning. And, with careful historical contextualization, we see how such acts reproduce, refuse, or powerfully disregard racial logics that have entangled the US and Liberia for two centuries. Led by Black feminist scholarship, Telling Blackness also provides a semiotic glimpse into ways of relating that help create complex diasporic intimacies and that sustain Black life beyond survival.

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313

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Oxford University Press

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0197697577

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9780197697573

The Nature Explorer's Drawing Guide for Kids

By: Brad Woodard,Krystal Woodard

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The Nature Explorer's Drawing Guide for Kids

By: Brad Woodard,Krystal Woodard

Spark imagination and creativity with this interactive guidebook with step-by-step drawing lessons and fascinating facts about nature! Perfect for curious explorers and aspiring artists, this beginning drawing book will show kids how to observe and draw their favorite animals and the natural world in a fun, interactive style! Popular YouTube drawing instructor Brad Woodard, founder of the Brave Kids Art Club show, shares his easy-to-follow lessons and tips and tricks for getting outside and drawing cool stuff. Featuring: Intro to Exploring: Encourages kids to get outside and make their own discoveries, including facts about flora/fauna, things to observe about them, what to look for, and where to find them. Adding Flair: Teaches kids to be confident in what they create and find the freedom to discover their own drawing style. 30+ Awesome Animals: All your favorite animals are included as well as trees, flowers, plants, and more. This is the ultimate guide for any kid who wants to explore the world and learn to draw!

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292

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Rocky Nook, Inc.

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1681989956

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9781681989952

A Word or Two Before I Go

Essays Then and Now

By: Arthur Krystal

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A Word or Two Before I Go

Essays Then and Now

By: Arthur Krystal

Praise for Arthur Krystal: "Arthur Krystal’s essays shine like a searchlight through the fog of contemporary culture. Vivid, sharp, and enlightening, they keep a steady keel through roiling waters."—Edward Mendelson, Lionel Trilling Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University "Krystal celebrates the author compelled to write by a sense of mortality and the critic qualified to judge literature by traits of temperament and taste.... And as his vibrant, well-considered essays reveal, Krystal has not entirely relinquished hope that ‘books, despite the critics’ polemics, are still the truest expressions of the human condition.’"—Elizabeth Mary Sheehan, New York Times Book Review "Arthur Krystal’s mind and style manage to flourish in a postmodern culture where literature has—in his fine phrasing—‘become the center that is somehow beside the point.’"—Thomas Mallon Although Arthur Krystal shies away from the title of essayist, his essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, the American Scholar, the New York Times Book Review, and other publications. Moreover, such dissimilar critics as Dana Gioia, Morris Dickstein, Edward Mendelson, Christopher Hitchens, and Joseph Epstein have all lauded his work. And his first book, Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature, was a finalist for the 2003 PEN Award for the Art of the Essay. Accolades aside, Krystal simply regards himself as someone who writes sentences to see where they take him. In A Word or Two Before I Go, Krystal offers us—if he is to be believed—his final collection. These eleven essays and one evocative story range in subject matter from the depredations of aging and the anomalies of cultural appropriation to the friendship between Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling and the day Muhammad Ali punched Krystal in the face.

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190

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University of Virginia Press

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0813950635

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9780813950631

Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad

By: Krystal A. Sital

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Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad

By: Krystal A. Sital

An eloquent new Caribbean literary voice reveals the hidden trauma and fierce resilience of one Trinidadian family. There, in a lush landscape of fire-petaled immortelle trees and vast plantations of coffee and cocoa, where the three hills along the southern coast act as guardians against hurricanes, Krystal A. Sital grew up idolizing her grandfather, a wealthy Hindu landowner. Years later, to escape crime and economic stagnation on the island, the family resettled in New Jersey, where Krystal’s mother works as a nanny, and the warmth of Trinidad seems a pretty yet distant memory. But when her grandfather lapses into a coma after a fall at home, the women he has terrorized for decades begin to speak, and a brutal past comes to light. In the lyrical patois of her mother and grandmother, Krystal learns the long-held secrets of their family’s past, and what it took for her foremothers to survive and find strength in themselves. The relief of sharing their stories draws the three women closer, the music of their voices and care for one another easing the pain of memory. Violence, a rigid ethnic and racial caste system, and a tolerance of domestic abuse—the harsh legacies of plantation slavery—permeate the history of Trinidad. On the island’s plantations, in its growing cities, and in the family’s new home in America, Secrets We Kept tells a story of ambition and cruelty, endurance and love, and most of all, the bonds among women and between generations that help them find peace with the past.

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226

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393609278

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9780393609271

You Are. Who.

By: Krystal Bradshaw

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You Are. Who.

By: Krystal Bradshaw

Molly is your average teenager. She is looking forward to her Senior year. Suddenly, her world becomes slowly rocked. Bit by bit, she pieces together a puzzle she wished she hadn't discovered. Who can you trust when everyone you love, lies? Watch Molly unfold the secrets within her life. Her devotion towards her family has given her the ability to persevere. Will this unrequited love be the cause of her impenetrable doom?

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214

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Lulu.com

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138723871X

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9781387238712

Book's by Krystal Wade

Telling Blackness

Telling Blackness

The Nature Explorer's Drawing Guide for Kids

The Nature Explorer's Drawing Guide for Kids

A Word or Two Before I Go

A Word or Two Before I Go

Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad

Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad

You Are. Who.

You Are. Who.

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