The Cosby Cohort: Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)

The Cosby Cohort: Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced in White neighborhoods and schools, the extraordinary pressures placed upon them to achieve, the racial lessons imparted to them by their parents, their tenuous relationships with Black children of

In this fascinating and deeply personal exploration

I am The Rage is a Nautilis Award & BCALA 2022 Honor Poetry Award Winning collection perfect for fans of Amanda Gorman and Maya Angelou

including William Grant Still

transcribed and translated them into English before his death in 2008

the game throws everything it has to offer at Wink

bittersweet debut about one girl's journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow South

the subject of blackness as a form of identity becomes relevant

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daughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy

who’s headed to college in the fall

It's a deconstruction of Romeo and Juliet's romantic meta narrative focussing on the minor players with Tybalt at the center

interacting with and shapeshifting into animal spirits