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Looking at the Stars
As early as 1900, when moving-picture and recording technologies began to bolster entertainment-based leisure markets, journalists catapulted entertainers to godlike status, heralding their achievements as paragons of American self-determination. Not surprisingly, mainstream newspapers failed to cover black entertainers, whose “inherent inferiority” precluded them from achieving such high cultural status. Yet those same celebrities came alive in the pages of black press publications written by and for members of urban black communities. In Looking at the Stars Carrie Teresa explores the meaning of celebrity as expressed by black journalists writing against the backdrop of Jim Crow–era ...
The Will to Wait
It seems like friendship—or is it dating? Or is it something in between? When a spilled beverage brings a handsome, wealthy bachelor into Teresa Jameson's life, the pastor's daughter tries to guard her heart. She wants to attract a Christian mate and remain pure before marriage, but her imperfections and the lure of temptation make it difficult to let go of this non-Christian man. Will faith and the support of her friends help Teresa wait for God's perfect timing and the right man who can prove himself worthy of her?
INtrospection
Terrell, a recently single 30-year-old Businessman, enters a very cold and dark point in his life, after catching his partner, of 4 years, in their bed with someone else. Terrell finds himself in the middle of a battle between love and sex. A lot has changed since he's been in a 4 year committed relationship. Dating has merely evolved to keystrokes on the computer. True romantic love appears non-existent, whereas sex, on the other hand, is all too common. Disease is on the rise as infection rates climb the charts, and more and more people suffer. These issues concern Terrell as he contemplates on giving in to this pressure of a life without true romantic love but only sex. In pursuit for happiness, Terrell almost stops believing in love until he examines his own personal hurts and disappointments, and finally finds love.
The Statues and Legacies of Combat Athletes in the Americas
The violence of combat sports left a mark on how fans and communities remembered athletes. As individual endeavors, combat sports have often produced more detailed, emotionally poignant, and deeply personal stories of triumph than those associated with team sports. Commemorative statues to combat athletes are therefore unique as historical markers and sites of memory. These statues tell remarkable stories of the athletes themselves, but also the people and communities that planned and built them, the cities and towns that memorialized them, the fans who followed them, and the evolution of memory and place in the decades that followed their inauguration. Edited by C. Nathan Hatton and David M. K. Sheinin, The Statues and Legacies of Combat Athletes in the Americas brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars from across North America to interrogate the intimate and layered meanings attached to these monuments to the lives and legacies of combat athletes.
The Guardians of Truth
An oracle tells of their coming: the six, born to right the wrongs of their ancestors. Sam, Adrianne, Teresa and Carrie are only children—and one of them is destined to die. For centuries, Earth’s sister-world, Ariatless, has maintained neutrality between the realms, a safe space for the patron races to co-exist. But when a baby is born of war, it becomes the perfect host for the Old World’s greatest evil: a spirit called Talicor. From broken homes, to the walls of school, four unsuspecting children are called to fight for a world they never dreamed existed. Each has their part to play and power to wield, but they must first overcome their fears. The Battle of the Worlds cannot be lost. It will end where it began—on Earth.
The Road to Tomorrow
Teresa Flannagan is a young woman on the run from an abusive father, hitchhiking her way to a new life. What she doesn't know is that the new life she imagined will end up being much different from what she planned. On a rainy September night, a kind man offers her a ride to her destination. Teresa accepts, and is swept into a world of horses, love, and heartbreak, eventually being faced with the difficult decision of choosing the direction for her future.
Political Pioneer of the Press
Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career, and legacy were relegated to the footnotes of history. Beginning with the posthumously published autobiography edited and released by her daughter Alfreda in 1970, a handful of biographers and historians—most notably, Patricia Schechter, Paula Giddings, Mia Bay, Gail Bederman, and Jinx Broussard—have begun to place the life of Wells-Barnett within the context of the social, cultural, and politi...
Footsteps
This is a story of one branch of the Pepe family in America. Starting with its roots in Italy, the narrative tracks the family from 1800, through the years if the Risorgimento, to the hilltop village in Ferrandina in Southern Italy, then to Little Italy in New York, and finally, to the (then) bucolic suburban area of Gravesend in Brooklyn. Along the way the family intersects with a number of historical figures and events, including Guglielmo Pepe, the George Washington of Italy, Maria Barbella, the first woman ever to be sentenced to the electric chair, Calhoun Washington, who was born a slave, Heavyweight Champion Bob Fitzsimmons, General George Armstrong Custer, John Philip Sousa, General Pershing and Pancho Villa. The story is told in three parts. Part one details the history of Michele Pepe and his family, from Ferrandina to America, with stops in Little Italy and the Gravesend section of Brooklyn. Part two tells the true history of the family, from 1800 to the present. Part Three is a memoir of Old Gravesend in the late thirties and early forties, a remembrance of the time, the place and the people.
Ethological Studies of Child Behaviour
This 1972 volume contains specially written reports by research workers in zoology, psychology and psychiatry applying methods of comparative ethology in studies of human behaviour. It is intended as a contrast to popular researches in animal behaviour. There has been a considerable increase in the number of descriptive/analytical studies of human behaviour concerned principally with the behaviour of children and their mothers, and the methods have become widely used. The present collection of papers assesses the value of the methods and clarifies the particular contributions which they may make to an understanding of human behaviour. The papers cover a range of topics familiar from animal studies: non-verbal communication, mother-infant interaction, play and aggressive behaviour, but also range widely into more usual subjects for developmental psychology: cross-cultural studies, development of skills, class differences in mother-infant interactions. This is essentially a book for research workers, teachers and students of behavioural sciences.
