Black passports : travel memoirs as a tool for youth empowerment / / Stephanie Y. Evans

• Autore: Evans Stephanie Y.
• Pubblicazione: Albany : , : SUNY Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896073
• Soggetto topico: Self-control; Performance; International travel; Black people - Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue: “Wisdom Is the Best of All Treasuresâ€?: Adolescent Development and the ABCs of Power""; ""Message: Guidance to Wisdom""; ""Memoirs: Shaping a Stable Self From a Transient Childhood""; ""Model: Literary Mentoring and Tools for Global Competence""; ""1. Introduction: Literary Mentoring""; ""Message: Start With a Guide""; ""Manufacturing Empowerment and Black Diplomacy: Self, Communication, Tasks, and Innovation""; ""Sass and Swag: Literacy for Life""; ""Memoirs: Narratives of Empowerment""; ""Methodology"" ; ""“Truthâ€? in Autobiography: Promises and Limitations of the Genre""""The Guidance Council: Archetypes for Life Writing""; ""Autobiographical Archetypes""; ""Literacy as Liberation: Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells""; ""Frederick Douglass""; ""Ida Wells-Barnett""; ""Model: Black Passports Outline, a Plan For Creative Literacy""; ""A Decade of Mentoring through Higher Education""; ""Book Outline""; ""2. Life""; ""Message: Exploring Self, Heroes, and Role Models""; ""ABCs of Self-Empowerment and the Search for Epic Heroes in the Literary Tradition""; ""“I am Not a Role Modelâ€?"" ; ""Memoirs: Narratives of Life""""Human Will, Cultural Production, and Political Identity""; ""Creative Lives of Cultural Humanists: Katherine Dunham and Dizzy Gillespie""; ""Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie""; ""Katherine Dunham""; ""Model: Young Lions and Creative Life-Skills Training""; ""Two Case Studies of Creative Mentoring: Saroya Corbett and Frank Moten""; ""Q and A with Saroya Corbett""; ""Q and A with Frank Moten""; ""Reichert House for Boys and PACE Program for Girls: Creative Life-Skills Training""; ""Be a Lion: Secrets From Diana Ross and The Wiz (Home, Courage, Brain, Heart)"" ; ""3. School""""Message: Mentoring Academically “At-Riskâ€? Students""; ""Mentoring “At-Riskâ€? Youth: A Course in Resilience""; ""African American Studies 3915C, Syllabus Course Description""; ""Main Topics""; ""Course Objectives""; ""Memoirs: Narratives of Education""; ""Passport Vocabulary: An Autobiographical Lexicon""; ""Georgia Standards and Historical Legacies""; ""National and State Standards for History""; ""1700s""; ""1800s""; ""1900s""; ""2000s""; ""Mapping Memoirs: “Cultural Aspects of Geographyâ€?""; ""Reading Multicultural Literature: Finding Voice through Writing"" ; ""W. E. B. Du Bois""""Anna Julia Cooper""; ""Model: Creating Space Through Poetry and Technology""; ""Viewshare Library of Congress Online Resources""; ""4. Work""; ""Message: Self-Mastery and Competence""; ""Practical Guides and Useful Tools: Georgia Steppers League, Urban Debate League, Boys and Girls Club, Career Launch, Myplan.com""; ""Memoirs: Narratives of Work""; ""Politics and Law: Mifflin Gibbs, Condoleezza Rice, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, Andrew Young, Charles Rangel, Robert Williams, John Mercer Langston, Adam Clayton Powell"" ; ""Military: Charity Earley, Colin Powell, Charles Dryden, Alexander Jefferson, Robert F. Williams, Gail Harris, Benjamin Gould, Coleman Young, Adam Clayton Powell, Berry Gordy""
• Titolo autorizzato: Black passports
• ISBN: 1-4384-5155-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464522403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II