Blackass
Title | Blackass PDF eBook |
Author | A. Igoni Barrett |
Publisher | Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1555979262 |
Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he's been transformed into a white man. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. With his red hair, green eyes, and pale skin, it seems he's been completely changed. Well, almost. There is the matter of his family, his accent, his name. Oh, and his black ass. Furo must quickly learn to navigate a world made unfamiliar and deal with those who would use him for their own purposes. Taken in by a young woman called Syreeta and pursued by a writer named Igoni, Furo lands his first-ever job, adopts a new name, and soon finds himself evolving in unanticipated ways. A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass is a fierce comic satire that touches on everything from race to social media while at the same time questioning the values society places on us simply by virtue of the way we look. As he did in Love Is Power, or Something Like That, Barrett brilliantly depicts life in contemporary Nigeria and details the double-dealing and code-switching that are implicit in everyday business. But it's Furo's search for an identity--one deeper than skin--that leads to the final unraveling of his own carefully constructed story.
Kiss My Black Ass!
Title | Kiss My Black Ass! PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony X |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2016-11-09 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1524649422 |
This book is his journeya Black Kiss-story thats full of funny, entertaining, and in some cases, heartbreaking stories of his years as a die-hard Kiss fan committed to the hottest band in the land. Its the voice for everyone who was there and remembers what it was like being a hardcore Kiss fan back in the day, with all the mystery, excitement, anticipation, and mania, but also the rejection, taunting, and funny looks. So get ready to go back to a time before you had a full-time job, responsibilities, commitments, the stress of daily life, and when Kiss was the most important thing in your life. Get ready to relive your magical Kiss years all over again.
Cuz I Love Your Black Ass
Title | Cuz I Love Your Black Ass PDF eBook |
Author | Just A Messenger |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 58 |
Release | 2020-08-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Not your average self help book. This book gets right to the point, literally, from the introduction. The health craze has certainly taken over the world in recent years but this messenger sees that craze has yet to reach the black community, specifically black men. The unorthodox delivery in this masterpiece is full of straight to the point facts mixed with humor that will inspire or maybe offend you. Definitely a once in a generation read.
Dark Continent my Black Arse
Title | Dark Continent my Black Arse PDF eBook |
Author | Sihle Khumalo |
Publisher | Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2011-03-28 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1415202931 |
In 2003 Sihle Khumalo decided to give up a lucrative job and a comfortable life style in Durban and to celebrate his 30th birthday by crossing the continent from south to north. Celebrating life with gusto and in inimitable style, he describes a journey fraught with discomfort, mishap, ecstasy, disillusionment, discovery and astonishing human encounters. A journey that would be acceptable madness in a white man is regarded by the author’s fellow Africans as an extraordinary and inexplicable expenditure of time and money. Newly conscious of language barriers and regional difference in a continent still unexplored by the majority of Africans, the author presents a strikingly original and highly enjoyable account of a unique adventure. Each chapter is prefaced by a description of the ‘father of the nation’ of the country in question and ends with a hilarious ‘important tip’.
An Angry-Ass Black Woman
Title | An Angry-Ass Black Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Karen E. Quinones Miller |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2012-10-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1451607822 |
Traces the impoverished early years of Ke-Ke, who awakens from a coma in her midlife to confront events that shaped her resolve to leave Harlem, earn an education, and pursue a writing career.
Sit Your Black A.S.S. Down!
Title | Sit Your Black A.S.S. Down! PDF eBook |
Author | Miranda y Pearson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 60 |
Release | 2016-04-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781941749494 |
A no-nonsense guide for all parents who love their sons. Created for parents who have become frustrated because their sons are frustrated and for those who need guidance in navigating the public school system to ensure it will not fail their child - not just academically but socially and emotionally as well. This guide will empower you as a parent! It will show you how NOT to allow society or public school to label your son as ... ANOTHER SOCIAL STATISTIC!
Bombingham
Title | Bombingham PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Grooms |
Publisher | One World |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2002-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345452933 |
In his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in a muddy rice paddy. But all he can think of is his childhood friend Lamar, the friend with whom he first experienced the fury of violence, on the streets of Birmingham, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The juxtaposition is so powerful—between war-torn Vietnam and terror-filled “Bombingham”—that he is drawn back to the summer that would see his transition from childish wonder at the world to his certain knowledge of his place in it. Walter and Lamar were always aware of the terms of segregation—the horrendous rules and stifling reality. Their paper route never took them to the white areas of town. But that year, everything exploded. And so did Walter’s family. As the great movement swelled around them, the Burkes faced tremendous obstacles of their own. From a tortured past lingered questions of faith, and a terrible family crisis found its climax as the city did the same. In the streets of Birmingham, ordinary citizens risked their lives to change America. And for Walter, the war was just beginning.