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African-Americans
in the New Millennium by Erskine Peters, PhD $9.95 paper • ISBN 0-916147-18-5 107 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 African Americans in the New Millennium does a masterful job of debunking the common themes upon which the majority of Black Americans have constructed their lives since our introduction to these shores in 1619. The race is on, he suggests, for each person to rewrite their code of behavior – their blueprint – for successful passage into the next millennium. . . . Along with suggesting that Black Americans scrap the monolithic approach to dealing with life, Peters also suggests that they dump the deep-seated and long-standing devotion to the messianic complex. There is no question that . . . Peters is provocative. He is not bashful about critically analyzing Louis Farakan, Na’im Akbar, and Lenora Fulani to expose the chinks he sees in their armor. Dr. Peters also spends several well-used pages delineating his theories on education, child care, religion, politics and race relations. But those uninterrupted discourses are garnishes for the main dish, which is how to rewrite a blueprint and how to use one. – J. Frazier SmithErskine Peters completed his Ph.D. at Princeton after studying at Yale and Oberlin. He is presently Professor of English and Black Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has also taught at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA. |
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African
Openings to the Tree of Life by Erskine Peters, PhD $9.95 paper • ISBN 0-916147-06-1 71 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 African Openings uncovers the universal essence and life generating principles of African religion, philosophy, mythology, folklore, rituals, and symbolism, ordered and crystalized. These principles pertain to one’s total development, relating on different levels to the person, the family, the social group, the spiritual group, the neighborhood, the community, and work organization. These principles are intended to orient one toward understanding, seeing and living life as an on-going process. The principles may be used to deal with, or simply reflect upon life in its many aspects. Certain principles when turned over in the mind and meditated upon may provide solutions to a vast range of problems. The second portion of the book is an invaluable, concise essay on the profound significance ideas and symbols have upon the building of cultures, civilizations and personalities. “I believe this book will establish itself as a classic within the next twenty years. I shall put it with my I Ching.” Adrienne Kennedy Obie playright, author of Funnyhouse of a Negro and The Owl Answers “Thoroughly enjoyed this book—will inevitably return to it again and again.” Professor Harry Edwards • Dept of Sociology, UC Berkeley “All praises to Erskine Peters for African Openings to the Tree of Life. He has successfully traversed the dangerous path of the reconstruction of an “African” world view with the wisdom of the knowledge-holders, the grace of the gazelle, and the power of the African universe. Principles for living, from Africa to the World, in an eminently available form!” Professor Gerald L. Davis • African-American Folklorist, Rutgers University |
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Fundamentals
of Essay Writing An Orientation Manual by Erskine Peters, Phd $9.95 paper • ISBN 0-916147-05-3 53 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Fundamentals of Essay Writing is designed to stimulate the improvement of student writing in all courses. It can serve as an introduction to basic composition as well as a handy refresher guide. This concise book teaches by question and answer. It answers questions such as: What is a good writer? What is an essay? How is self-concept related to writing ability? Why is it important to have an introduction and a conclusion? What is analysis? What are the types of essays? What is fluency and how can it be achieved? What can be done about writer’s block? Fundamentals of Essay Writing presents the essential rules of punctuation, analyzes an essay to illustrate how a skilled writer might use the various modes of discourse effectively, and has a special section on how to write book reviews. It is infinitely more contemporary and less confusing than the Chicago Manual of Style , therefore more accessable to students. “Presents the information in a new way, which will appeal to those legions of students who did not grasp . . . the ‘old way.’ Most of all, this book has a clear respect for the learner.” Dr. William Costello, • Director of Learning Services, San Francisco State University ”I would use this book as an introduction in composition classes that focus upon writing as a primary learning experience.” Professor Frances Smith Foster • San Diego State University ”I feel this book will be an excellent aid in organizing, constructing and writing essays and book reviews. It forms a fine compliment to The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.” Professor Jonathan Walton • University of Iowa |
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Aunt
Phyllis by Beverly J. Robinson, PhD $9.95 paper • ISBN 0-916147 - 10 - X 42 pages • 7 x 9 The 1980’s in the United States represent the last decades to wave farewell to those African Americans who learned of slavery from former enslaved Africans. These are today’s grandparents who heard about slavery, American’s shame, from the lips of their ancestors. Aunt Phyllis Carter is one of these elders who recounts in her own voice, remembrances of the past, her ancestors and slavery. This essential recollection provides an important missing link in African American history. Ms. Robinson does a masterful job in juxtaposing Aunt Phyllis’s recollections with an insightful and easy to understand narrative. When Mrs. Carter passes on, like her chronological constituents, they close out the last of the primary resources. Everything else is left to history – secondary data which is either written, verbally or visually recorded thanks to an astute researcher attempting to “catch it before it is gone.” The words of Mrs. Carter are reflective of an attitude stemming from a tradition of wisdom and her life narratives. This fascinating piece of folklore is recommended reading for Black Studies programs from junior high through university level. Beverly J. Robinson is a specialist in folklore, theater and ethnic arts. She has been teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1978. She has worked extensively with the Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival presentations and publications, and has conducted research for the Library of Congress Folklife Center. Dr. Robinson received her PhD in Folklore and Folklife Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also founder and director of Robinson and Associates, a Third World women’s company specializing in cultural research, documentation and programming. |
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You
Be The Mother Follies by Claire Burch $14.95 paper • ISBN 0-8482-7300-1 142 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 You Be The Mother Follies is about two women linked across time by the common bond of stressful motherhood. Emma Darwin is the wife of Charles Darwin, and Charles is never around. Off trotting around the Galapogos and other places, Charles is no help at all in raising their children. After ingesting some stale bread pudding (probably ergot tainted), Emma begins to hallucinate that she is another Emma, on welfare in the 1970s in New York, trying to get child support from an errant husband who has run off with a “flotsam jetsam floozie.” Under this stress, it’s no wonder that this twentieth century Emma would come to believe she is Emma Darwin, actively corresponding with a man a hundred years dead. This delightful tale of two Emmas unfolds in letters and dialogue between husband and wife, a combination of arcane jive talk and contemporary slang. Actually the story of divorce, abandonment, and the toil of a single mother couldn’t be more relevant to our times. A mixture of past and present, fact and fiction, You Be the Mother entertains as it enlightens. “This fantasy novel about Emma Wedgewood, wife of Charles Dawin, centers around her hallucinative mind. Her grief at the death of their child Annie is given a bizarre twist by some ergot mold on the bread she uses for her pudding; her world becomes the twentieth century. Burch presents this fantasy as a collage of Emma’s hallucinogenic reports; her husband’s sympathetic but tangential letters–which contain fragments from Darwin’s Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals; and contributions from other characters such as the social worker Dorothy (Beauty) Pageant, and Emma’s unusual later offspring, Ralph Waldo Business Administration. Ralph Waldo achieves a more fortunate ration of brain size to body weight at a carnival where he is split into two precocious individuals. The technique is striking. The reports of Emma’s caseworker place the wife among us, struggling with her schizophrenia, her kids, and her ex (Darwin) who won’t fork over past due child support payments. The contemporary slang jolts the reader in its juxtaposition to Darwinian ideas. The unexpected is well presented here.” Michael Healy, BEST SELLERS, The Monthly Book Review |
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My Coney Island Baby |
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