Truth Is A Strange Fruit
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Author |
: David Beresford |
Publisher |
: Jacana Media |
Total Pages |
: 359 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781770099029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1770099026 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Truth is a Strange Fruit by : David Beresford
Twice voted Britain's top foreign correspondent, David Beresford has produced a 'word picture' of South Africa's Apartheid War. Borrowing from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and plundering his own journalism, he gives his 'truth' of the apartheid years. He has woven through the book the love letters of John Harris - the 'station bomber', awaiting execution on Pretoria's death row. In combination, these paint an often harrowing and heart-breaking, but brilliant picture of South Africa. -- Cover, p. [4].
Author |
: Lillian Eugenia Smith |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0156856360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780156856362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Fruit by : Lillian Eugenia Smith
Prelude and aftermath of a lynching in Georgia, depicting the South's unsolved racial problem.
Author |
: Mark Waid |
Publisher |
: BOOM! Studios |
Total Pages |
: 26 |
Release |
: 2015-07-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681595399 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681595397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Fruit #1 by : Mark Waid
It's 1927 in the town of Chatterlee, Mississippi, drowned by heavy rains. The Mississippi River is rising, threatening to break open not only the levees, but also the racial and social divisions of this former plantation town. A fiery messenger from the skies heralds the appearance of a being, one that will rip open the tensions in Chatterlee. Savior, or threat? It depends on where you stand. All the while, the waters are still rapidly rising...
Author |
: Kathy A. Perkins |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 1998-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253211638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253211637 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Fruit by : Kathy A. Perkins
"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are grounded—not only in the truth of white racism's toxic effect on our national existence but also in the truth that there exists a contesting, collective response that is part of an on-going and continually building momentum." —Theaatre Journal "A unique, powerful collection worthy of high school and college classroom assignment and discussion." —Bookwatch This anthology is the first to address the impact of lynching on U.S. theater and culture. By focusing on women's unique view of lynching, this collection of plays reveals a social history of interracial cooperation between black and white women and an artistic tradition that continues to evolve through the work of African American women artists. Included are plays spanning the period 1916 to 1994 from playwrights such as Angelina Weld Grimke, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Lillian Smith, and Michon Boston.
Author |
: David Margolick |
Publisher |
: Canongate Books |
Total Pages |
: 114 |
Release |
: 2013-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781782112525 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1782112529 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights by : David Margolick
The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it. Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its graphic and heart-wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the South, brought home the evils of racism as well as being an inspiring mark of resistance. The song's powerful, evocative lyrics - written by a Jewish communist schoolteacher - portray the lynching of a black man in the South. In 1939, its performance sparked controversy (and sometimes violence) wherever Billie Holiday went. Not until sixteen years later did Rosa Parks refuse to yield her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Yet 'Strange Fruit' lived on, and Margolick chronicles its effect on those who experienced it first-hand: musicians, artists, journalists, intellectuals, students, budding activists, even the waitresses and bartenders who worked the clubs.
Author |
: Achmat Dangor |
Publisher |
: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2007-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802199713 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802199712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bitter Fruit by : Achmat Dangor
A Man Booker Prize finalist. “[A] deeply unsettling novel about the new South Africa . . . The people and their stories are unforgettable” (Booklist, starred review). With the publication of Kafka’s Curse, Achmat Dangor established himself as an utterly singular voice in South African fiction. His new novel, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award, is a clear-eyed, witty, yet deeply serious look at South Africa’s political history and its damaging legacy in the lives of those who live there. The last time Silas Ali encountered Lt. Du Boise, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Silas’s wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husband’s participation in Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress. When Silas sees Du Boise by chance twenty years later, as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is about to deliver its report, crimes from the past erupt into the present, splintering the Alis’ fragile peace. Meanwhile Silas and Lydia’s son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parents’ pasts. “In the vein of J.M. Coetzee’s novels, but from the perspective of black South Africans,” Bitter Fruit is a harrowing story of a brittle family on the crossroads of history and a fearless skewering of the pieties of revolutionary movements (Publishers Weekly). “A haunting story of a family disintegrating, wonderfully authentic . . . its progress like slow dancing.” —The Independent “Bitter Fruit has a shocking ability to surprise the reader with the persistence of racial feeling in South Africa.” —The Guardian
Author |
: Kenan Malik |
Publisher |
: ONEWorld Publications |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 2009-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000066062899 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Fruit by : Kenan Malik
Debates about race are back and they're only getting bigger. There has recently been a massive upsurge in scientific racial research. The US government has licensed a heart drug to be used only on African Americans. A genetic study claims that Jews are more intelligent because their history of financial occupations favored genes associated with cleverness. Malik argues that this rise in racial ideas is paradoxically due to the efforts of liberal anti-racism.
Author |
: Amir Ali Said |
Publisher |
: Superchamp, Incorporated |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2013-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0989398609 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780989398602 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The BeatTips Manual, 6th Editition by : Amir Ali Said
'The BeatTips Manual' (Amir Said) is the definitive study of the art of beatmaking (hip hop production). Brilliantly divided into five major parts - a riveting History part, an extensive Instruction (how-to) part, an insightful Interviews part, which features exclusive interviews with DJ Premier, DJ Toomp, Marley Marl, 9th Wonder and more, an explosive Music Theory part, and a Business part - 'The BeatTips Manual' is robust, detailed, and comprehensive. Containing a sharp analysis of the origins of beatmaking, as well as its key aesthetics, principles, priorities, and predilections, 'The BeatTips Manual' is an incisive look at the art of beatmaking - and an intense read. Not only the most complete examination of the hip hop/rap music process, it's also among the leading studies of hip hop culture itself. Destined to expand and transform traditional ideas about musicians, musicianship, and musical processes, 'The BeatTips Manual' is one of the most important and innovative music studies ever published.
Author |
: Marlene Downing |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0578897245 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780578897240 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Fruit Since 1973 by : Marlene Downing
In a world of racial tension and political divide this book attempts to bridge the understanding that human life does not gain its value from other human beings but by God himself. Billie Holiday , a historical jazz performer , stood up with boldness for justice. Many denied her the opportunity to use her voice as freedom of speech. She spoke up for the injustice happening to black men and women despite the opposition. She was a voice for those persons that were devalued in her day. She sang from the depths of her soul about the strange fruit of that era.Today, sixty one million lives have been lost due to abortion. The fruit of the womb is the Strange Fruit of modern day times. Future lives hang in the balance. It is important that we gain understanding of the tragic pending threat to the fruit of the womb.
Author |
: Jeanette Winterson |
Publisher |
: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2007-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802198723 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802198724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by : Jeanette Winterson
The New York Times–bestselling author’s Whitbread Prize–winning debut—“Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel” (The Washington Post Book World). When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary debut novel received unanimous international praise, including the prestigious Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Winterson went on to fulfill that promise, producing some of the most dazzling fiction and nonfiction of the past decade, including her celebrated memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?. Now required reading in contemporary literature, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl’s adolescence. Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind—and on reporting them with wit and passion—makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood. “If Flannery O’Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical first novel. . . . Winterson’s voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you’ve never heard before.” —Ms. Magazine