An edition of Sweet Release (2007)

Sweet release

the last step to Black freedom

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Sweet release
James Davison
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An edition of Sweet Release (2007)

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Prometheus Books
Language
English
Pages
277

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Sweet release: the last step to Black freedom
2008, Prometheus Books
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Cover of: Sweet Release
Sweet Release: The Last Step to Black Freedom
December 31, 2007, Prometheus Books, Prometheus
Hardcover in English

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Table of Contents

Roots of self-defeat
Enmeshment and codependency : just one big dysfunctional family
Psychological theories
Don't I know you from everywhere? pseudomutuality
Mechanisms and machinations of self-defeat
Ghetto fables : Aesop ain't got nothing on us
Why Big Momma's feets hurt so much
Searching for Black identity : backward or forward
The blue and the red : just hangin' 'round the 'hood
Singing the blues
It's all your fault : nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
Baa baa Black sheep : Black leaders and their windmills
Is you the one? saving your own damned self
Tickets to the new minstrel shows
There but for the grace of God go I (and other lunacy)
Coo! coo! pigeonholes are for the birds
Apples and oranges : under the skin and over the hump
Black advancers : conservatives, Uncle Toms, or harbingers
Messages for those moving forward
You can't dance your way out of your constrictions
Denial is more than a river in Africa
On becoming lactose-intolerant
Dumping Pookie : he's heavy and he damned sure ain't my brother
Give back to the Black community? Gimme a break!
Abandoning the trenches : defeat and misery in the 'hood
Snakebite : surviving the venom
Hooray! the death of marginality
Of soft pretzels, cherry water ice, and hoagies
The other side of the mountain : Black identity beyond the struggle
Embracing the new you
Messages for those being left behind
Why you're being dumped
E-mail to a dying breed
Letter to incarcerated Black men
Endangered species : will we miss the call of the wild homies?
The race card : no trump
Who's in your way now? overcoming yourself
Black still? Black selves versus emancipated selves.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Amherst, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.896/073
Library of Congress
E185.625 .D385 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
277 p. ;
Number of pages
277

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22558589M
ISBN 10
1591025583
ISBN 13
9781591025580
LCCN
2007046645
Goodreads
2609294

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