Showing posts with label Race relations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Race relations. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams

Racial Realities and Post Racial Dreams


Listen to an interview with Julius Bailey on SiriusXM News & Issues

“This is Julius Bailey’s most important work to date. The book provides a critical, urgent, and courageous meditation on the current American racial landscape. Drawing from Western philosophy, prophetic criticism, and Black arts and culture, Bailey spotlights the political, economic, and existential challenges confronted by the American body politic. Equally important, he offers a pathway for creating a more humane, loving, safe, and just world.” ― Marc Lamont Hill, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Morehouse College, and CNN Political Commentator


Visit Julius Bailey at: racialrealitiesbook.com
Book Description:

Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams is a moral call, a harkening and quickening of the spirit, a demand for recognition for those whose voices are whispered. Julius Bailey straddles the fence of social-science research and philosophy, using empirical data and current affairs to direct his empathy-laced discourse. He turns his eye to President Obama and his critics, racism, income inequality, poverty, and xenophobia, guided by a prophetic thread that calls like-minded visionaries and progressives to action. The book is an honest look at the current state of our professed city on a hill and the destruction left on the darker sides of town.

Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams

Friday, October 30, 2015

The Great Pretender

The Great Pretender

The Great Pretender

"An excellent historical novel for younger readers" by Barb Nielsen

I loved this book. It's a coming of age novel that encompasses several adult themes like fighting, racism and dealing with betrayal. The story is set in Little Rock, Arkansas during that city's racial crisis in 1957 and the dramatic story adds to the reader's understanding of the South in the 1950s.

The main character is 12-year old Archie Lane, a basketball whiz with an overactive imagination and a budding crush on his 13 year old neighbor, Sandra. When Archie thinks he sees the man next door murder his own son, Archie and Sandra are plunged into a series of adventures with lots of exciting twists and turns.

The historical setting is accurate and the author avoids stereotypes and instead relies on well rounded, interesting characters. The dialogue is full of humor and Archie is a particularly memorable character. A good read. Highly recommended.

*****

Archie has uncovered that terrible secret, but no one will believe him.

Book Description:

Twelve-year old Archie Lane’s next door neighbor is a killer. Archie has uncovered that terrible secret, but no one will believe him. If he doesn’t find a way to convince his parents he witnessed a real murder, the results could be fatal for Archie.

Set in the fall of 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas, a city torn apart by one of the nation’s first civil rights crises, Archie’s suspense-filled story recounts his transition from an idyllic world to the incomprehensible world of adults.

Throughout his story, the reader watches Archie struggle to come to terms with the subtleties of right and wrong.

The Great Pretender