Ebony and Ivy

Ebony and Ivy
Author: Craig Steven Wilder
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1608194027

A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.

Ebony & Ivory

Ebony & Ivory
Author: Stu Wilson
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1984
Genre: Fraser, Bernie
ISBN:

Play Ebony: Play Ivory

Play Ebony: Play Ivory
Author: Henry Dumas
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1974
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

"The death of Henry Dumas was violent, tragic, and wrong. But it is his life, as revealed in these poems, that commands our attention. Sweet Home, Arkansas, the place of his birth, is here in the pristine blues poem 'Knees of a natural man.' Harlem, where he later lived, is here in 'Mosaic Harlem.' And the philosophy and passion that come from being in touch with the whole universe are here as well in 'Genesis on an endless mosaic.' Then there are the love poems--acid, sensual, intense. Here is a poet of both the mind and the flesh, whose boldness is the consequence of certainty and whose restraint has the touch of a master at the reins"--From back cover.

Ebony and Ivory

Ebony and Ivory
Author: Jade Jones
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781480180642

Although they are identical, Ebony and Ivory are as different as night and day. Ebony will stop at nothing to have her sister's man, Black. From lies, to backstabbing, to purposely transmitting STDs, Ebony's determined to wedge the couple apart. Will Ivory catch wind of her trifling sister's scheme...or will she ultimately fall victim to her deceiving, manipulative ways?

When Ivory Towers Were Black

When Ivory Towers Were Black
Author: Sharon Egretta Sutton
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0823276139

This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative to recruit minority students to Columbia University’s School of Architecture. At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees in architecture from Columbia University. Its narrative begins with a protest movement to end Columbia’s authoritarian practices, and ends with an unsettling return to the status quo. Sharon Egretta Sutton, one of the students in question, follows two university units that led the movement toward emancipatory education: the Division of Planning and the Urban Center. She illustrates both units’ struggle to open the ivory tower to ethnic minority students and to involve those students in improving Harlem’s slum conditions. Along with Sutton’s personal perspective, the story is narrated through the oral histories of twenty-four fellow students who received an Ivy League education only to find the doors closing on their careers due to Nixon-era urban disinvestment policies.

Telling Histories

Telling Histories
Author: Deborah Gray White
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2009-09-17
Genre:
ISBN: 1458723089

The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers, illuminating how they entered and navigated higher education, a world concerned with - and dominated by - whites and men. In distinct voices and from different vantage points, the personal histories revealed here also tell the story of the struggle to establish the fields of African American and African American women's history.

My Life in the Sunshine

My Life in the Sunshine
Author: Nabil Ayers
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 059329596X

“Nabil traces the image of his father through song. With growing fascination and heartbreak, he draws out meaning from the shadow of absence, and ultimately redefines what it means to be a family.” - Michelle Zauner, New York Times bestselling author of Crying in H Mart and Grammy nominated musician Japanese Breakfast A memoir about one man's journey to connect with his musician father, ultimately re-drawing the lines that define family and race. Throughout his adult life, whether he was opening a Seattle record store in the '90s or touring the world as the only non-white band member in alternative rock bands, Nabil Ayers felt the shadow and legacy of his father's musical genius, and his race, everywhere. In 1971, a white, Jewish, former ballerina, chose to have a child with the famous Black jazz musician Roy Ayers, fully expecting and agreeing that he would not be involved in the child's life. In this highly original memoir, their son, Nabil Ayers, recounts a life spent living with the aftermath of that decision, and his journey to build an identity of his own despite and in spite of his father’s absence. Growing up, Nabil only meets his father a handful of times. But Roy’s influence is strong, showing itself in Nabil’s instinctual love of music, and later, in the music industry—Nabil’s chosen career path. By turns hopeful--wanting to connect with the man who passed down his genetic predisposition for musical talent—and frustrated with Roy’s continued emotional distance, Nabil struggles with how much DNA can define a family… and a person. Unable to fully connect with Roy, Nabil ultimately discovers the existence of several half-siblings as well as a paternal ancestor who was enslaved. Following these connections, Nabil meets and befriends the descendant of the plantation owner, which, strangely, paves the way for him to make meaningful connections with extended family he never knew existed. Undeterred by his father's absence, Nabil, through sheer will and a drive to understand his roots, re-draws the lines that define family and race.

Ebony

Ebony
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1990-06
Genre:
ISBN:

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Old Ebony, Young Ivory

Old Ebony, Young Ivory
Author: Aaliyah Jackson
Publisher: Salacious Stories
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8826084661

Her friend's young son is always hitting on her, almost shamelessly. She knows it's wrong, but she can't help but fantasize... after all, isn't it every college aged boy's dream to be with a MILF? And besides, who's going to find out?