This work, however, moves far beyond blaming the victimizer. The criminalization of the Black American male is a psycholpolitically engineered process designed to maintain the dependency and relative powerlessness of the Afrikan-American and Pan-Afrikan communities. The main thesis of this book is that the operational existence of Black-on-Black violence in the United States is psychologically and economically mandated by the White American-dominated status quo. The psychodynamics of the Black-on-Black criminal are presented here with a depth and clarity rarely seen before. Its explanatory perspectives on the sociopsychological and politicoeconomic causes of Black-on-Black Violence are exceptionally insightful, incisive and iconoclastic. This book represents a distinct milestone in criminology and Afrikan Studies. The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination
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Ultimately, the bonds underlying a common political culture proved stronger than the acrimony of partisanship. The enthusiasm with which Northerners acted to influence their elected representatives demonstrated a tremendous popular faith in and attachment to the political system, even as the largely partisan nature of Northerners’ views and the parties’ ability to contain serious internal differences testified to the capability of the party system to structure and channel popular opinion. Throughout the crisis the Northern populace was deeply divided, generally along party lines, over the questions of compromise with the South and the use of force to maintain federal authority. Of primary concern are the process by which Northerners decided how they would react to disunion and the roles that political leaders and activists and ordinary citizens played in that process. This study examines the Northern response to secession during the critical five months between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the outbreak of the Civil War. Having just finished a string of highly emotional books, this very fun romantic comedy was just what I needed. They have such a wonderful camaraderie that I really wanted to be part of their close-knit group. The funniest moments in the story come from their get-togethers and wacky group chats. This is a friends-to-lovers romance, and while I obviously couldn’t wait for Reid and Millie to get their act together and jump aboard the love train, I fell equally in love with all five best friends. Reid won me over with his charm and easygoing nature. Millie is emotionally stunted-often frustratingly so-but she is also kind and quick-witted. There is something about a Christina Lauren book that just makes me happy, so it comes as no surprise that My Favorite Half-Night Stand left me with a goofy smile on my face. But when she creates a fictional name for a new account, Millie finds herself vying for the online attention of a man she sees every day in the flesh. Unfortunately, Millie has more success helping them make matches online than she does navigating the onslaught of lewd pics in her own feed. With a world-famous speaker at their university, Millie Morris and her four woefully single male colleagues make a pact that they’ll all find dates. Published by Gallery Books on December 4, 2018įrom the New York Times bestselling author that “hilariously depicts modern dating” ( Us Weekly) comes a sexy romantic comedy about online dating, and its many, many fails. My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren At the outset, she is returned to her home planet, deposited in a wild desert where the culture is alien to her. Whether the protagonist Estri is a piece or a player is the central conundrum of the book, which seems to have been highly influenced by Dune, as well as the pulp era sword-and-planet classics. In keeping with the more supernaturalist angle of the Silistra books, the yris-tera is understood as an oracle, even more than as a game. Rather than the Jetan of Barsoom or the Kaissa of Gor, Silistra has the yris-tera ("Weathers of Life") in which sixty carved figural pieces are deployed somewhat at random onto a set of three seven-by-seven square grids, placed one above the other. This second volume of Morris's Silistra series is built around the board game motif that is a feature of arterial sword-and-planet fiction. Fifteen years on lock, I knew chicks who chased death, thought it was the better option over the rough lives they were living. I don’t have no big fear of death, never really even thought about it. I, Winter Santiaga, am the one who got shot dead. I can’t even hear the howl of the wind, which normally is so loud upstate New York where I was locked up, that we could hear it from inside the prison walls, depending on where we were in the building. I don’t hear the director calling out “Cut!” after first having called out “Action!” I don’t hear the cheers, shout outs, or big ups from the VIP crowd, who I know had gathered, because I am the one who arranged their VIP passes to be the only ones invited to accompany the film crew on my prison release day. I don’t hear no cops calling out bullshit commands, like freeze! I don’t hear the scream of the ambulance or the swift feet of the curious running to the scene of the incident. But after these three shots, I don’t hear no clap back, running feet, or screeching police sirens. niggas, gunshots fired anywhere in the world means pay attention motherfuckers. No matter whose finger is on the trigger, a nigga vs. Gunshots! Brooklyn born, I know the sound. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Aziz ansari datingShe impressively speaks four languages – Danish, English, German, and French. Currently, Serena works as an Investigative Analytic with accounting firm PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers). While getting her Ph.D., she also served as a mentor with an educational program (ORBYT mission) at the UK-based organization Twinkle Space Mission. in plasmonics from King’s College London, where she also worked as a teaching assistant while completing her doctorate. Serena also has a master’s degree in Physics from the University of Manchester. She graduated in 2008 from college where she studied Physics, Math, and Chemistry. Serena is 30 years old (born in December 1988) and she has a very impressive (not to mention accomplished) resume. Open Tennis Championship on his social media account in 2019 (in a post since removed). They went public with their relationship when Ansari posted photos of them at the U.S. It is unclear exactly where and when they met, or how. Image Credit: Serena Skov Campbell/LinkedIn Here’s everything we know about his girlfriend.Īpparently, Aziz has been dating a forensic data scientist for at least two years now. When people just couldn’t recognize her, they realized that Aziz’s girlfriend is not one of the Hollywood bunch. While he was laying low, though, he was also spotted multiple times in New York City, hand in hand with a gorgeous brunette. Jwould have been Maurice Sendak’s 85th birthday, so let’s talk about food because Maurice loved food with a deep and abiding love. I asked his dear friend Toni, who knew him so very well, if she would share some of her delicious memories with us. So much as already been said about Maurice that I will only add that in addition to creating some of the most brilliant books the world has ever seen, he made it impossible for me to ever have a bowl of chicken soup with rice and not think about him and smile.Īs you may know, we lost him just about a year ago, and it’s still hard for me to believe he’s not out there, sitting at his kitchen table with his faithful German Shepherd at his feet. “Sprinkle once, sprinkle twice, sprinkle chicken soup with rice”….read the wonderful book by Maurice Sendak and then make this easy recipe for chicken soup with rice!Īmong the many amazing people I have been lucky enough to know, two of the most amazing are my friend Toni Markiet, and the extraordinary Maurice Sendak. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Closer roderick gordonIn 2001, after a nine-year stretch with an investment bank, Roderick was made redundant, something that he has since described as a blessing in disguise. Here he worked in corporate finance, specializing in private equity transactions. For several years he wrote music and played in a number of bands, and also toyed with the idea of getting into films (he was employed briefly by George Harrison’s Handmade Films), but eventually ended up in the City. They became friends in the summer of 1980, and kept in touch until, some twenty-three years later, they finally began to cooperate on their writing.Īfter an unsuccessful attempt to transfer to medical school to train as a doctor, Roderick had graduated from University College Londonin 1983 without any idea of what career he wanted to follow. It was here that he met his future collaborator on the Tunnels series of books, Brian Williams, who was at the Slade School of Fine Art. He went on to public school at Oundle, and then attended University College, London, where he read biology (specializing in genetics). Chronically shy throughout his childhood, he sought refuge in drawing and writing, and whilst at the Hall School, Hampstead, he had his first short story published in the school magazine, at the age of twelve. Biography īorn in November 1960, Roderick grew up in Highgate, North London. Roderick Gordon (born November 1960) is the author of Tunnels, a bestselling children's book and Summerhouse Land. 5/27/2023 0 Comments All the light we cannot see reviewLevy and Levine both worked as producers for the 2016 movie Arrival, earning them the Best Picture nomination. The series is executively produced by Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, and Josh Barry. Fans of the novel have been eagerly awaiting this adaptation since Netflix announced the project in 2021. The four-part series will be out on Netflix on November 24, 2023. Netflix Sets November Release Date for ‘All the Light We Cannot See’Īlong with the trailer, we finally have a release date for All the Light We Cannot See. Mark Ruffalo portrays Marie Laure’s father, Daniel, and Hugh Laurie portrays her great-uncle Etienne.Ĭheck out the trailer for Netflix’s adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See: Through a shared secret connection, they find faith in humanity and the possibility of hope.” Aria Mia Loberti, a newcomer who is blind, portrays Marie-Laure, while Louis Hofmann plays Werner. The description for the series reads, “Over the course of a decade, this limited series interweaves the lives of Marie-Laure Leblanc, a blind French girl taking refuge with her uncle during WWII, and Werner Pfennig, n brilliant German teenager with an expertise in radio repair. Netflix has revealed the trailer and release date for All the Light We Cannot See, a four-part limited series based on Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Not For Sale by Sandra MartonOnly, due to a set-up by one of his slimy mangers, and a switch at the last minute by two graduate students (with completely different motives), Lucas thinks our heroine’s name is Dani Sinclair. ★★★★ ½ ! Up from the Brazilian slums, billionaire Lucas Vieira not only needs a translator, but someone to keep a businessman’s wife at a distance translator, Caroline Hamilton, fits both roles perfectly. But everything turned out well in the end! Sometimes I really liked Lucas, sometimes he got on my nerves, mistrusting Caroline, suspecting that she was something she wasn’t. Some of my favorite parts in the book were the hero’s interactions with the cat! Caroline was a feisty, independent, and caring heroine. I really liked Caroline and her bedraggled and tattered cat Oliver. This was such an enjoyable read.sweet, sexy. Lucas is tossed between believing Caroline is a call girl/prostitute, or is she? This misunderstanding eventually breaks them up. Lucas and Caroline start spending time together, going to his beach house in the Hamptons. (Lucas needs a date who speaks Russian and a pretend girlfriend…the Russian man Lucas is doing business with has a wife who has the hots for Lucas and he wants to put her off.) Later on, through a mix-up, Lucas mistakenly thinks Caroline is a prostitute.Īfter someone breaks into Caroline’s apartment Lucas brings Caroline, and her cat Oliver, to stay at his lavish penthouse. Brazilian Billionaire Lucas Vieira and Caroline Hamilton first meet on an arranged business date. |