Inner City Romance

Inner City Romance
Author: Guy Colwell
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-02-22
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1606998137

Guy Colwell’s 1970s underground comic book series Inner City Romance tread new territory: it was filled with stories about prison, black culture, ghetto life, the sex trade, and radical activism. It portrayed the unpleasant realities of life in the inner city, where opportunities were limited and being on the lowest end of the economic ladder meant that one’s vision of the American dream was more about survival than lifestyle choices. Every issue of Inner City Romance is included in this collection, as well as many of the highly detailed paintings Colwell created at the time. In an accompanying text piece, Colwell provides context for the material.

Inner City Hoodlum

Inner City Hoodlum
Author: Donald Goines
Publisher: Holloway House Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1992-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780870679995

"Johnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yards like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh and Buddy, hit them often, stealing for a fence. They have to. They're the sole support of their families. But when Josh is killed by a security guard, they are forced to look for other work. They find it with the underworld kings in Elliot Davis." -- Back cover.

Doing the Best I Can

Doing the Best I Can
Author: Kathryn Edin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0520283929

Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as “deadbeat dads.” Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly—without planning. The authors chronicle the high hopes for forging lasting family bonds that pregnancy inspires, and pinpoint the fatal flaws that often lead to the relationship’s demise. They offer keen insight into a radical redefinition of family life where the father-child bond is central and parental ties are peripheral. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Doing the Best I Can shows how mammoth economic and cultural changes have transformed the meaning of fatherhood among the urban poor. Intimate interviews with more than 100 fathers make real the significant obstacles faced by low-income men at every step in the familial process: from the difficulties of romantic relationships, to decision-making dilemmas at conception, to the often celebratory moment of birth, and finally to the hardships that accompany the early years of the child's life, and beyond.

Doll

Doll
Author: Guy Colwell
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-04-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 168396229X

Doll is celebrated cartoonist Guy Colwell's (Inner City Romance) darkly satirical take on patriarchal ownership, dehumanization, and sexual objectification. When an artist crafts a lifelike sex doll for a disfigured, middle-aged virgin, it soon takes a lurid life of its own. Like an erotic Frankenstein's monster, the mannequin brings out the basest instincts in each person it crosses paths with.

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Author: Elijah Anderson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2000-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0393070387

Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.

Soulmates

Soulmates
Author: Carolyn Godschild Miller
Publisher: H J Kramer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2010-09-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1932073345

In her lively and conversational style, Carolyn Miller takes a high-spirited, unsentimental, in-depth look at what a soulmate is and how to connect with that special person. Sharing her own quest and that of dozens of other couples for a meant-to-be relationship, she uses true and extraordinary stories to illustrate what she means by inner guidance. Contrary to popular belief, soulmate couples do not usually recognize each other at first glance: When Roma was but eight years old, she risked her life daily by bringing food to Herman, who was interred in a Nazi concentration camp. They later met repeatedly while both lived in Israel, but it was not until nine years later that they met in New York and recognized that they were soulmates. Karen, a beautiful and successful pop singer, met Pat by handing him her card as she passed him in the street and asking him to "call me." They became fast friends, but neither felt that they were "right for each other." It was only after they put aside their preconceived ideas of what their ideal partner would be like that they became soulmates. Pedro and Elizabeth first met as they passed one another in a psychiatrist's office. Their therapist felt that they had a past-life connection but ethically could do nothing to bring them together. They met again while waiting for a plane, and discovered they were soulmates. Each chapter ends with guidelines for actualizing a soulmate relationship, which provide a practical aid to the reader who wishes to find his or her own "relationship made in heaven."

A Hope in the Unseen

A Hope in the Unseen
Author: Ron Suskind
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010-08-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307763080

The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair. In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric had almost no friends. He ate lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he asked for, knowing that he was really competing with kids from other, harder schools. Cedric Jennings’s driving ambition—which was fully supported by his forceful mother—was to attend a top college. In September 1995, after years of near superhuman dedication, he realized that ambition when he began as a freshman at Brown University. But he didn't leave his struggles behind. He found himself unprepared for college: he struggled to master classwork and fit in with the white upper-class students. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric was left to rely on his intelligence and his determination to maintain hope in the unseen—a future of acceptance and reward. In this updated edition, A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey during his last two years of high school, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown, and tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work. Eye-opening, sometimes humorous, and often deeply moving, A Hope in the Unseen weaves a crucial new thread into the rich and ongoing narrative of the American experience.

Teaching At-risk and Inner-city Students

Teaching At-risk and Inner-city Students
Author: Kevin Angulski
Publisher: D S D Publications
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1993
Genre: Education, Urban
ISBN: 9780963889904

A detailed look at the crisis in education currently afflicting America. The author is an award-winning teacher who has written a truly inspiring & informational book. This book is realistic because it is not written in starchy, university-style rhetoric, but rather provides useful, real insights & stories of success, direct from the trenches. The author has taught in California & Minnesota & most recently the South Side of Chicago. TEACHING AT-RISK & INNER-CITY STUDENTS provides solutions & hope for those associated with the 30% of our population who drop out of school each year. Parents will benefit from the theories on management & discipline, for example. TEACHING AT-RISK & INNER-CITY STUDENTS is unique & exciting because it addresses the education crisis while considering the students' psyches. The reader will gain insights into significantly improved methods. Parents, teachers, students & the general public will find it to be a funny, informational & inspiring book. "Immensely readable," says the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. To order TEACHING AT-RISK & INNER-CITY STUDENTS: $12.95 plus $3.00 shipping & handling to DSD Publications, P.O. Box 582223, Minneapolis, MN 55458-2223. For quantity discounts, call 612-871-7604.