Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work "An absolute must-read" – Shondaland “[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor” – New York Times They called her Rabbit. Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. One of five children, Pat watched as her mother struggled to get by on charity, cons, and petty crimes. At age seven, Pat was taught to roll drunks for money. At twelve, she was targeted for sex by a man eight years her senior. By thirteen, she was pregnant. By fifteen, Pat was a mother of two. Alone at sixteen, Pat was determined to make a better life for her children. But with no job skills and an eighth-grade education, her options were limited. She learned quickly that hustling and humor were the only tools she had to survive. Rabbit is an unflinching memoir of cinematic scope and unexpected humor. With wisdom and humor, Pat gives us a rare glimpse of what it’s really like to be a black mom in America.
After a lifetime of strained bonds with her aging parents, Patricia Williams finds herself in the unexpected position of being their caregiver and neighbor. As they all begin to navigate this murky battleground, the long-buried issues that have divided their family for decades—alcoholism, infidelity, opposing politics—rear up and demand to be addressed head-on. Williams answers the call of duty with trepidation at first, confronting the lines between service and servant, guardian and warden, while her parents alternately resist her help and wear her out. But by facing each new struggle with determination, grace, and courage, they ultimately emerge into a dynamic of greater transparency, mutual support, and teachable moments for all. Honest and humorous, graceful and grumbling, While They’re Still Here is a poignant story about a family that waves the white flag and begins to heal old wounds as they guide each other through the most vulnerable chapter of their lives.
‘I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins. Ideas honed in slavery – of the otherness, the boorishness, the inferiority of thy neighbour – have continued to travel through American society.’
Genealogy notes regarding the Williams, King, Dunaway, Rolph, Crowell and related families of southwestern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, with family photographs and an ending section highlighting interesting stories from the life of the author.
Brilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnist—aka the Mad Law Professor—tackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillance, and more Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a Black man’s leg surgically attached (with the expired Black leg-donor in the foreground), contracts law scholar and celebrated journalist Patricia J. Williams uses the lens of the law to take on core questions of identity, ethics, and race. With her trademark elegant prose and critical legal studies wisdom, Williams brings to bear a keen analytic eye and a lawyer’s training to chapters exploring the ways we have legislated the ownership of everything from body parts to gene sequences—and the particular ways in which our laws in these areas isolate nonnormative looks, minority cultures, and out-of-the-box thinkers. At the heart of “Wrongful Birth” is a lawsuit in which a white couple who use a sperm bank sue when their child “comes out Black”; “Bodies in Law” explores the service of genetic ancestry testing companies to answer the question of who owns DNA. And “Hot Cheeto Girl” examines the way that algorithms give rise to new predictive categories of human assortment, layered with market-inflected cages of assigned destiny. In the spirit of Dorothy Roberts, Rebecca Skloot, and Anne Fadiman, The Miracle of the Black Leg offers a brilliant meditation on the tricky place where law, science, ethics, and cultural slippage collide.
When the iron horse was making its way up the Sacramento Valley, W.H. Williams was preparing for the future of a small village then named Central. Land was bought, building began, and by the time the railroad arrived in 1877, the town was well under way and would soon be called Williams. The story of our town is as much about its residents as it is the community, the determination, the hard work, and the resilience that helped make Williams what it is today. Follow the story from the 1850s to 1950s--the years that set the stage for generations to come.
Our lives should always be rejuvenated, renewed, and revitalized. If not, what would be the outcome? It is never too late to resuscitate ourselves, our visions, and aspirations. Created in His image, God made us whole. We are not missing a thing. Sometimes we feel like we are shattered and have left pieces behind that are gone forever, but they are not. The pieces of our lives predetermine a destiny. What pieces given to you have been misplaced, forsaken, pushed asunder, buried, tossed to the wind, stolen, etc.? Their value is inconceivable in life because they justify the blueprint regarding your purpose and its pursuit in life. The compilation of Pieces addresses the resurrection of failures, broken dreams, hopes, aspirations, and whatever else caused the pieces of your life to seemingly unravel and cause you to question your identity and existence. Simply resuscitate and live! Live your abundant, predestined life. Why? Because you were created in the image of God. Pieces reflects who you really are, not who you >em>think you are. You have to be cognizant of who you are in the eyes of God. You are called to soar on eagles wings. Pieces launches you in that direction. Take flight!
Renowned columnist Patricia J. Williams shares her frank and personal views on contemporary American culture. She relates stories about the many facets of her life - as a lawyer, scholar, writer, African American, descendant of slaves, mother, and single, fifty-something woman.
In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might achieve a world where "color doesn't matter"--where whiteness is not equated with normalcy and blackness with exoticism and danger. Drawing on her own experience, Williams delineates the great divide between "the poles of other people's imagination and the nice calm center of oneself where dignity resides," and discusses how it might be bridged as a first step toward resolving racism. Williams offers us a new starting point--"a sensible and sustained consideration"--from which we might begin to deal honestly with the legacy and current realities of our prejudices.
Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: how slavery began, and how America split itself in two to end it. Here's the true story of America from the African American perspective. From the moment Africans were first brought to the shores of the United States, they had a hand in shaping the country. Their labor created a strong economy, built our halls of government, and defined American society in profound ways. And though the Emancipation Proclamation wasn't signed until 300 years after the first Africans arrived, the fight for freedom started the moment they set foot on American soil. This book contains the true narrative of the first 300 years of Africans in America: the struggles, the heroes, and the untold stories that are left out of textbooks. If you want to learn the truth about African American history in this country, start here.
Patricia Williams was born in Pineville, LA to JC & Joetta Williams, but now resides in Alexandria, LA. She was baptized in 1991 at Zion Hill Baptist Church under the leadership of Joshua Joy Dara. She served faithfully in the church in various areas of the ministry. In pursuing her destiny that God ordained for her, she left the church, breaking away from a 3rd generation tradition that wanted her to remain, causing her family and even friends to question her sanity. Knowing that she could not reach her full potential in God she broke free from man made traditions and started her course in pleasing God. After much Fasting & Praying, her ministry was brought forth and on April 25, 2004, she was officially ordained as an Evangelist & Prophetess through the mentorship of Pastor Barbara Riley. She now ministers the word of God under a powerful anointing. She has travel to different cities and states and her ministry has been exposed to many who proclaim her a True Worshipper. In January, 2004 she recorded her first CD entitled, aItas Not An Ordinary Worshipa. As a Psalmist she is able to touch the heart of those who are in the services and bring the people to a new level of Praise & Worship. Her hunger and desire to please God has caused an anointing of breakthrough to be prevalent in her life. Because of her pursuit she was led by God to write a book detailing her experiences. Through her experiences she has obtained divine revelation concerning pleasing God and has purposed in her heart not to let anything stand in her way of pleasing Him. She is an intercessor who loves to labor in prayer and God uses her in prophesy. She is currently pursuing a degree in Business Administration becauseshe firmly believes in elevating yourself to success. She believes that a person can accomplish anything through perseverance and dedication. With a unique style of ministering the word of God, she is truly a Woman of God who is being used to bring people to a new place of maturity in the Lord in these last days.
Jamaica is the land where the rooster lays an egg...When a Jamaican is born of a black woman and some English or Scotsman, the black mother is literally and figuratively kept out of sight as far as possible, but no one is allowed to forget that white father, however questionable the circumstances of birth...You get the impression that these virile Englishmen do not require women to reproduce. They just come out to Jamaica, scratch out a nest and lay eggs that hatch out into 'pink' Jamaicans." --Zora Neale Hurston We may no longer issue scarlet letters, but from the way we talk, we might as well: W for welfare, S for single, B for black, CC for children having children, WT for white trash. To a culture speaking with barely masked hysteria, in which branding is done with words and those branded are outcasts, this book brings a voice of reason and a warm reminder of the decency and mutual respect that are missing from so much of our public debate. Patricia J. Williams, whose acclaimed book The Alchemy of Race and Rights offered a vision for healing the ailing spirit of the law, here broadens her focus to address the wounds in America's public soul, the sense of community that rhetoric so subtly but surely makes and unmakes. In these pages we encounter figures and images plucked from headlines--from Tonya Harding to Lani Guinier, Rush Limbaugh to Hillary Clinton, Clarence Thomas to Dan Quayle--and see how their portrayal, encoding certain stereotypes, often reveals more about us than about them. What are we really talking about when we talk about welfare mothers, for instance? Why is calling someone a "redneck" okay, and what does that say about our society? When young women appear on Phil Donahue to represent themselves as Jewish American Princesses, what else are they doing? These are among the questions Williams considers as she uncovers the shifting, often covert rules of conversation that determine who "we" are as a nation.
In the mid 1800s legal immigrants entered the United States by the hundreds; the illegal slave trade flourished; and Native Americans discovered gold on their own lands. In 1835, President Andrew Jackson signed an order that forcibly removed all Indians from their lands in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas; they were to be removed to the western frontier, leaving their homes and possessions behind. The order passed Congress by just one vote. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall objected; he demanded President Jackson rescind the order, but Jackson refused. In the spring of 1838, Jackson sent General Winfield Scott to Georgia with orders to build the stockades that would house the Indians awaiting their removal from the only land and life they had ever known. The first book in a planned trilogy, Cry of the Blood introduces an exciting and dramatic cast of characters beginning with the McCarrons from Australia, the Carvers from Germany, and the Kewahnees from West Africa. With its passions of love and hate, and agony and forgiveness, it offers a colorful adventure story put in a time frame of the early to mid 1800s in American history.
In this provocative new addition to the Theology and the Sciences series, Patricia Williams assays the original sin doctrine with a scientific lens and, based on sociobiology, offers an alternative Christian account of human nature's foibles and future. Focusing on the Genesis 2 and 3 account, Williams shows how its "historical" interpretation in early Christianity not only misread the text but derived an idea of being human profoundly at odds with experience and contemporary science. After gauging Christianity's several competing notions of human nature -- Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox -- against contemporary biology, Williams turns to sociobiological accounts of the evolution of human dispositions toward reciprocity and limited cooperation as a source of human good and evil. From this vantage point she offers new interpretations of evil, sin, and the Christian doctrine of atonement. Williams's work, frank in its assessment of traditional misunderstandings, challenges theologians and all Christians to reassess the roots and branches of this linchpin doctrine.
Prepare for a successful career in caring for geriatric populations with Williams' Basic Geriatric Nursing, 6th Edition. This easy-to-read bestseller includes the latest information on health care policy and insurance practices, and presents the theories and concepts of aging and appropriate nursing interventions with an emphasis on health promotion. Part of the popular LPN/LVN Threads series, it provides opportunities for enhanced learning with additional figures, an interactive new Study Guide on Evolve, and real-world clinical scenarios that help you apply concepts to practice. Complete coverage of key topics includes baby boomers and the impact of their aging on the health care system, therapeutic communication, cultural considerations, spiritual influences, evidence-based practice in geriatric nursing, and elder abuse, restraints, and ethical and legal issues in end-of-life care. Updated discussion of issues and trends includes demographic factors and economic, social, cultural, and family influences. Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination! section at the end of each chapter includes key points along with new Review Questions for the NCLEX examination and critical thinking which may be used for individual, small group, or classroom review. UNIQUE! Streamlined coverage of nutrition and fluid balance integrates these essential topics. Delegation, leadership, and management content integrated throughout. Nursing Process sections provide a framework for the discussion of the nursing care of the elderly patient as related to specific disorders. Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions help in understanding how a care plan is developed, how to evaluate care of a patient, and how to apply knowledge to clinical scenarios. LPN/LVN Threads make learning easier, featuring an appropriate reading level, key terms with phonetic pronunciations and text page references, chapter objectives, special features boxes, and full-color art, photographs, and design. UNIQUE! Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes address specific therapies commonly used by the geriatric population for health promotion and pain relief. Health Promotion boxes highlight health promotion, disease prevention, and age-specific interventions. Home Health Considerations boxes provide information on home health care for the older adult. Coordinated Care boxes address such topics as restraints, elder abuse, and end-of-life care as related to responsibilities of nursing assistants and other health care workers who are supervised by LPN/LVNs. Clinical Situation boxes present patient scenarios with lessons for appropriate nursing care and patient sensitivity. Critical Thinking boxes help you to assimilate and synthesize information. 10th grade reading level makes learning easier. NEW! QSEN competencies briefly introduced in the text to help you provide safe, quality care. NEW and UNIQUE! A FREE Study Guide, presented in a comprehensive PDF format on Evolve, reinforces understanding and features an interactive grading functionality for instructors' convenience.
Curious about the historical Jesus? Read this book. Find out what the best scholars say about himin language anyone can understand. This book tells about Jesus from Nazareth, the human person, whom Christianity proclaims to be fully human, as human as you are. Jesus was born and grew up as a Jew. He lived in the Holy Land, which was ruled by the Roman Empire. He became a disciple of John the Baptist. After John died, Jesus returned to Galilee but not to his family, who thought him crazy. He walked the Galilean hills, met all kinds of people, ate with them, and argued with them. As he traveled, he told people about Gods presence in their lives every day, as they kneaded bread, planted vineyards, went to court, sought healing, and prayed. This book helps you understand Jesus as a man: what he taught, how he lived, and why he was crucified. It discusses his resurrectionall the biblical depictions. It describes his ascension as the New Testament tells it and as we must understand it in the universe that we inhabit. It also suggests why his life-style and message matter to you now, and what you can do to become more like him. It will help you answer the question we so often ask, What would Jesus do? It offers options for living in the secular world. It discusses possible choices of church. This book is about Jesus, and why he matters to you today.
NEW! Next-Generation NCLEX® examination-style case studies at the end of chapters include new-format questions to help you prepare for the licensure examination. NEW! Discussion of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model helps you learn decision making and develop the skills needed to plan effective nursing care. NEW! Free Study Guide on the Evolve website includes Next-Generation case studies and review questions to reinforce your understanding.
Patricia Williams recently became a foster parent to a 3 year old that had been in several foster homes. She wanted him to know that he is loved, he can be happy and filled with the joy of the Lord. This book is dedicated to children and parents around the world. Plant the Word each day will put a smile on the reader's face. Also as a surprise, this book not only teaches the parent how to plant seeds of encouragement to their children but also how to plant natural seeds, such as sunflower seeds and cucumber seeds. There's an easy peasy cucumber recipe your family will cherish and love that will be made from planting your own cucumber and tomato seeds.
Use newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and even junk mail as sources for reading-comprehension activities. For example, to practice identifying main ideas, separate newspaper stories from their headlines and then challenge students to reattach the right headlines to the right stories. Reproducible handouts lead students through additional clever, real-world activity ideas to develop the following comprehension skills: identifying the main idea and supporting details, distinguishing between fact and fiction, understanding cause-and-effect relationships, evaluating the role of tone and mood in persuasive writing, making generalizations, and drawing conclusions. Grades 4-8. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 84 pages.
Dreams and Spiritual Growth presents a new and fully comprehensive dreamwork methodology. It not only reviews some of the ancient Judaeo-Christian dreamwork traditions, but it also integrates an understanding of dreams and dreamwork techniques developed by modern psychology.
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