Tar Baby

Tar Baby
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2007-07-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307388158

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.

The Tar Baby

The Tar Baby
Author: Bryan Wagner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691196915

Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie. Other versions of the story, however, have surfaced in many other places throughout the world, including Nigeria, Brazil, Corsica, Jamaica, India, and the Philippines. The Tar Baby offers a fresh analysis of this deceptively simple story about a fox, a rabbit, and a doll made of tar and turpentine, tracing its history and its connections to slavery, colonialism, and global trade.

Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl

Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2003
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

In this retelling, using Gullah speech, of a familiar story the wily Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox who has set out to trap him.

Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit

Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Author: Don Daily
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-02-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780762417124

Follow the adventures of crafty B'rer Rabbit and his friends in seven playful folktales with roots in traditional African stories. Told and retold for hundreds of years, this young-reader's version of these folktales retains the original humor and wisdom, com- plemented by spirited, full-color illustrations by Don Daily.

Tar Baby

Tar Baby
Author: Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Stories from the classic Afro-American tales about Br'er Rabbit and his friends and enemies. Tar Baby is a collection of the some of the finest of these often surreal and grotesque stories, in the orginal African American dialect.

Tar Beach

Tar Beach
Author: Faith Ringgold
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593377869

CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNER • CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK Acclaimed artist Faith Ringgold seamless weaves fiction, autobiography, and African American history into a magical story that resonates with the universal wish for freedom, and will be cherished for generations. Cassie Louise Lightfoot has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on “tar beach,” the rooftop of her family’s Harlem apartment building, her dreams come true. The stars lift her up, and she flies over the city, claiming the buildings and the city as her own. As Cassie learns, anyone can fly. “All you need is somewhere to go you can’t get to any other way. The next thing you know, you’re flying among the stars.”

Home

Home
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307399745

The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home--and himself in it--may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding himself--and his home.

Brer Rabbit in the Briar Patch

Brer Rabbit in the Briar Patch
Author: Walt Disney Productions
Publisher: BDD Promotional Books Company
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1990-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780792450559

Relates how the wily Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox who has set out to trap him.