Search:

Results 1 to 10 of 117 |

The Turner house / by Flournoy, Angela.;
A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family. The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs. But now, as ailing matriarch Viola finds herself forced to leave her home and move in with her eldest son, the family discovers that the house is worth just a tenth of its mortgage. The Turner children are called home to decide its fate and to reckon with how each of their pasts haunts and shapes their family's future. Praised by Ayana Mathis as utterly moving and un-putdownable, The Turner House brings us a colorful, complicated brood full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances. It's a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; African American families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Roots [sound recording] : [the saga of an American family] / by Haley, Alex.; Brooks, Avery.; Dyson, Michael Eric.;
Narrated by Avery Brooks ; special introduction read by Michael Eric Dyson."A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendents' liberation"--The Internet Movie Database.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Haley, Alex.; Haley, Alex; Haley family.; Kinte family.; African Americans; African American families.;
© c2007., BBC Audiobooks America,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Somebody's daughter : [electronic resource] : A memoir. by Ford, Ashley C.; Ford, Ashley C..;
Narrator: Ashley C. Ford.Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there. She doesn't know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates. When the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley desperately searches for meaning in the chaos. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father's incarceration . . . and Ashley's entire world is turned upside down. Somebody's Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor, Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 245920 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; African American Nonfiction.; Biography & Autobiography.; Family & Relationships.;
© 2021., Macmillan Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=5665652 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
unAPI

The world according to Fannie Davis : my mother's life in the Detroit numbers / by Davis, Bridgett M.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307).Hitsville, USA -- Hey, you never know -- Living takes guts.An homage to the author's mother relates how she cleverly played Detroit's illegal lottery in the 1970s to support the family while creating a loving, joyful home and mothering her children to the highest standards."In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst neighborhoods. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis' mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie became more than a numbers runner: she was a kind of Ulysses, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city using her wit, style, guts, and even gun. She ran her numbers enterprise for 34 years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: 'Dying is easy. Living takes guts.' A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to 'make a way out of no way' to provide a prosperous life for her family--and how those sacrifices resonate over time. This original, timely, and deeply relatable portrait of one American family is essential reading."--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Biographies.; Davis, Fannie.; Davis, Bridgett M.; African American women; African American families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Summer on Highland Beach : a novel / by Hostin, Sunny,author.; Harris, Sharina,author.;
"Founded in the late 1800s by the son of Frederick Douglass, Highland Beach along the Chesapeake Bay is the oldest Black resort community in America. Inside this proud and secluded beach community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones's legacy. But Oliva's legacy comes with thorns--intertwined are secrets of her aunt's death; a controlling grandmother who is determined to crush anyone or anything that will interfere with her son's political career; and a father who wants to rebuild the family he rejected decades ago. In the midst of tense family drama, Olivia must decide if she wants to return to the beautiful life she's created in Sag Harbor--with the neighbors and wonderful man who've become central to her happiness--or finally achieve her dream of having a family and home to call her own in Highland Beach"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; African American women; African American families; Self-realization in women; Family secrets; Summer;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Roots : the saga of an American family / by Haley, Alex.; Dyson, Michael Eric,author of introduction.;
This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative rendering of the lives of seven generations of black men and women.
Subjects: Biographies.; Haley, Alex.; Haley, Alex; Haley family.; Kinte family.; African Americans; African American families.; Slavery; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Sounder / by Armstrong, William Howard,1914-; Barkley, James,ill.;
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.Newbery Award, 1970.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Dogs; Family life; Poverty;
© 2002., Harper Trophy,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

A Raisin in the sun [videorecording] / by Poitier, Sidney.; McNeil, Claudia.; Dee, Ruby.; Susskind, David,1920-1987.; Rose, Philip,1921-; Petrie, Daniel.; Hansberry, Lorraine,1930-1965.Raisin in the sun.; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
DVD Region 1 Format.Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee.Producers, David Susskind and Philip Rose ; director, Daniel Petrie ; screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry.A Chicago South Side black family experiences the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees it as the means of realizing long-nurtured dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.
Subjects: Films for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Minorities; African American families; Racism;
© 1999., Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

No one is coming to save us : a novel / by Watts, Stephanie Powell.;
"JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has"--Back cover.
Subjects: African American families; Homecoming; Furniture industry and trade; House construction; American Dream;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

An American marriage : a novel / by Jones, Tayari.;
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy's time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; African Americans; Man-woman relationships; African American families; False imprisonment; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 1 to 10 of 117 |