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Po H# on Dope to PhD
"There was a time when Elaine Richardson was one of 'the Negroes everybody pointed to as the Negroes you didn't want to become.' The title of this book is no metaphor or allusion, but a literal shorthand for a remarkable, unpredictable journey. She inherits a plain way of talking about horrific pain from a mother who seemed impossible to shock. The way too fast way she grew up was and is too common, but her will to remap her destiny is uncommon indeed. To call her story inspiring would be itself too plain a thing, hers is a heroic life." -dream Hampton, writer and filmmaker
Hiphop Literacies
This cutting-edge account explores rap and Hiphop discourse within a trajectory of Black discourses. Looking at music videos, websites and billboards, it highlights how Black youth read the world they inhabit.
African American Literacies
African-American Literacies is a personal, public and political exploration of the problems faced by student writers from the African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) culture. Drawing on personal experience, Elaine Richardson provides a compelling account of the language and literacy practices of African-American students. The book analyses the problems encountered by the teachers of AAVE speakers, and offers African American centred theories and pedagogical methods of addressing these problems. Richardson builds on recent research to argue that teachers need not only to recognise the value and importance of African-American culture, but also to use African-American English when teaching AAVE speakers standard English. African-American Literacies offers a holistic and culturally relevant approach to literacy education, and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the literacy practices of African-American students.
Check It While I Wreck It
Hip-hop culture began in the early 1970s as the creative and activist expressions -- graffiti writing, dee-jaying, break dancing, and rap music -- of black and Latino youth in the depressed South Bronx, and the movement has since grown into a worldwide cultural phenomenon that permeates almost every aspect of society, from speech to dress. But although hip-hop has been assimilated and exploited in the mainstream, young black women who came of age during the hip-hop era are still fighting for equality. In this provocative study, Gwendolyn D. Pough explores the complex relationship between black women, hip-hop, and feminism. Examining a wide range of genres, including rap music, novels, spoken...
The Greatest Christmas Gift
Within The Greatest Christmas Gift you will find a collection of poems that will transport you back in time to the birth of Jesus Christ. In some of the poems, characters will help you see the blessed event as it unfolded through their own eyes. Elaine Richardson worked in customer service for a number of years. Prior to that she also worked in different departments in banking within the credit card industry. Her desire is to share the love of God through poems that will touch people's lives. The Greatest Christmas Gift is her first book, but she hopes to publish more in the future. She enjoys sharing the needs of the less fortunate or special needs with those in her church through mission outreach and coming up with ways to help them. Elaine lives in beautiful San Diego, California where she grew up. She also lived in Ohio for a number of years where she raised her children.
Understanding African American Rhetoric
This is an extraordinarily well-balanced collection of essays focused on varied expressions of African American Rhetoric; it also is a critical antidote to a preoccupation with Western Rhetoric as the arbiter of what counts for effective rhetoric. Rather than impose Western terminology on African and African American rhetoric, the essays in this volume seek to illumine rhetoric from within its own cultural expression, thereby creating an understanding grounded in the culture's values. The consequence is a richly detailed and well-researched set of essays. The contribution of African American rhetoric can no longer be rendered invisible through neglect of its tradition. The essays in this vol...
African American Rhetoric(s)
African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an introduction to fundamental concepts and a systematic integration of historical and contemporary lines of inquiry in the study of African American rhetorics. Edited by Elaine B. Richardson and Ronald L. Jackson II, the volume explores culturally and discursively developed forms of knowledge, communicative practices, and persuasive strategies rooted in freedom struggles by people of African ancestry in America. Outlining African American rhetorics found in literature, historical documents, and popular culture, the collection provides scholars, students, and teachers with innovative approaches for discussing the epistemologies and realities that foster the inclusion of rhetorical discourse in African American studies. In addition to analyzing African American rhetoric, the fourteen contributors project visions for pedagogy in the field and address new areas and renewed avenues of research. The result is an exploration of what parameters can be used to begin a more thorough and useful consideration of African Americans in rhetorical space.
Telling My Story... at the Edge of Recovery
This art exhibition catalog accompanies Telling My Story at the Edge of Recovery from Homelessness, an art exhibition and educational forum that explores the journey of recovery by eight older African American women from homelessness in Detroit. It combines the creation of coneptual portraits by international artist/writer/scholar Mara Jevera Fulmer, with research activities by Drs. Olivia G.M. Washington and David P. Moxley and the TMS participants' personal perspectives and captured issues in their own words and frames of reference. As a result, it is hoped that it will lead to a greater understanding of the serious nature of this social problem in the United States, as well as to developing potential solutions and approaches to its prevention.
Up South
Matthew Countryman traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians to turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all. He explores the origins of civil rights liberalism, the failure to deliver on the promise of racial equality and the rise of the Black Power movement.
