Black Planet

Author: David Shields
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780609806661
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
"During the 1994-95 NBA season, Shields went to the Seattle SuperSonics' home games; watched their away games on TV; listened to interviews and call-in shows; talked, or tried to talk, to players, coaches, and agents; attended charity events; corresponded with members of the Sonics newsgroup on the Web. He kept a journal and over the next few years transformed that journal into this book, which is focused sharply on white spectators' relationship to black athletes, in particular Shields' own identification with Gary Payton, the team's language-besotted point-guard."--Jacket.

Adinkrahene

Author: J. A. Faulkerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Two college friends reunite to subvert the power, influence and control of White elites for the purpose of preparing the human race for an imminent alien invasion.

King In Black

Author: Clay Chapman
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302938568
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Darkness reigns over the Marvel Universe! As Knull makes his long-dreaded arrival, no corner of the world is safe - and all-star talents unite to explore key moments in the saga! Featuring epic clashes between Knull's army and Earth's heroes, the return of fan-favorite characters, surprising revelations regarding the Venom mythology and introductions to exciting new players in the Marvel Universe! Starring Scream, the American Kaiju, Cloak and Dagger, Cortland Kasady - ancestor of Cletus - and more! Plus: Dane Whitman, wielder of the mighty Ebony Blade, rises again to defend the Earth against Knull's unstoppable onslaught with Aero and Sword Master by his side! But what secrets will the brutal battle reveal about the Black Knight's past? Collects KING IN BLACK: PLANET OF THE SYMBIOTES #1-3 and KING IN BLACK: BLACK KNIGHT.

Black Planet

Author: David Shields
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803293540
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Exploration of how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans think and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, and black bodies.

Black and Brown Planets

Author: Isiah Lavender III
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1626743061
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
Black and Brown Planets embarks on a timely exploration of the American obsession with color in its look at the sometimes-contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors, including De Witt D. Kilgore, Edward James, Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen S. Barr, among others, explore science fiction worlds of possibility (literature, television, and film), lifting blacks, Latin Americans, and indigenous peoples out from the background of this historically white genre. This collection considers the role of race and ethnicity in our visions of the future. The first section emphasizes the political elements of black identity portrayed in science fiction from black America to the vast reaches of interstellar space framed by racial history. In the next section, analysis of indigenous science fiction addresses the effects of colonization, helps discard the emotional and psychological baggage carried from its impact, and recovers ancestral traditions in order to adapt in a post-Native-apocalyptic world. Likewise, this section explores the affinity between science fiction and subjectivity in Latin American cultures from the role of science and industrialization to the effects of being in and moving between two cultures. By infusing more color in this otherwise monochrome genre, Black and Brown Planets imagines alternate racial galaxies with viable political futures in which people of color determine human destiny.

The Planet of Junior Brown

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0020435401
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.

Policing the Planet

Author: Jordan T. Camp
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178478317X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
How policing became the major political issue of our time Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police Commissioner William Bratton. It’s a doctrine that has vastly broadened police power the world over—to deadly effect. With contributions from #BlackLivesMatter cofounder Patrisse Cullors, Ferguson activist and Law Professor Justin Hansford, Director of New York–based Communities United for Police Reform Joo-Hyun Kang, poet Martín Espada, and journalist Anjali Kamat, as well as articles from leading scholars Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin D. G. Kelley, Naomi Murakawa, Vijay Prashad, and more, Policing the Planet describes ongoing struggles from New York to Baltimore to Los Angeles, London, San Juan, San Salvador, and beyond.

A Planet with No Name

Author: D E Black
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539634133
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
All Veronica Smith and her husband wanted to do was start a new life on a new planet. The Smiths found a compatible group forming on the North American continent and signed a five-year Pioneer Compact short on law and long on freedoms. They planned and fantasized of a paradise while waiting for Earth's telescopic surveyors to discover a viable planet meeting current Goldilocks zone requirements. Now, Veronica stood in the middle of the muddy street on a planet with no name. The rain washed her tears away while heavy drops plummeted into jumbo-sized puddles splashing murky water onto her ankle length dress. She stared down at Cal, laying dead in the mud. The townspeople of Peaceful Junction ignored her. The Halberds were going to pay. The town was going to pay.

Fear of a Black Universe

Author: Stephon Alexander
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541699610
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
"The rabbit hole gets wrestled here. An old school saying applies: the more you know, the more you don’t know. Dance along this read into the unknown and find out that this book may be the best ever answer to ‘What is soul?'" —Chuck D, rapper and co-founder of Public Enemy *Starred Reviews* from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly! Named a Best Book of 2021 by Library Journal, Kirkus, and symmetry Magazine In this important guide to science and society, a cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong. Years ago, cosmologist Stephon Alexander received life-changing advice: to discover real physics, he needed to stop memorizing and start taking risks. In Fear of a Black Universe, Alexander shows that great physics requires us to think outside the mainstream -- to improvise and rely on intuition. His approach leads him to three principles that shape all theories of the universe: the principle of invariance, the quantum principle, and the principle of emergence. Alexander uses them to explore some of physics' greatest mysteries, from what happened before the big bang to how the universe makes consciousness possible. Drawing on his experience as a Black physicist, he makes a powerful case for diversifying our scientific communities. Compelling and empowering, Fear of a Black Universe offers remarkable insight into the art of physics.

Nocturnals Vol. 1

Author: Dan Brereton
Publisher: Oni Press
ISBN: 9780966712704
Category : Good and evil
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Doc Horror knows there are sinister forces at work trying to bring the downfall of the human race. They have already ravaged his home planet, and now he has traveled to Earth to try and stop them once and for all. Once here, however, he finds that this world's inhabitants aren't all sweetness and light themselves. Some of them are busy creating freakish mutations out of their fellow man, and others are helping the invaders in their quest for domination. An outcast, Doc Horror is forced to live by the dark of night, and there he finds compatriots who must also shun the light of day. Polychrome, The Gunwitch, Starfish, Firelion, Komodo, and The Raccoon have all their share of knocks from humanity, but they want to save their home world anyway, and they don't care how many monsters stand in their way.