| Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue: “Wisdom Is the Best of All Treasures�: 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"" |
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""€œTruthâ€? 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€?"" |
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""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)"" |
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""3. School""""Message: Mentoring Academically “At-Risk� Students""; ""Mentoring “At-Risk� 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 Geography�""; ""Reading Multicultural Literature: Finding Voice through Writing"" |
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""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"" |
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""Military: Charity Earley, Colin Powell, Charles Dryden, Alexander Jefferson, Robert F. Williams, Gail Harris, Benjamin Gould, Coleman Young, Adam Clayton Powell, Berry Gordy"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Self-control.
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Self-control. |
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Performance.
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Performance. |
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International travel.
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International travel. |
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Black people -- Social conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Black people -- Social conditions. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
1-4384-5154-7 |
| ISBN |
1438451555 |
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9781438451558 |
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9781438451541 (electronic book) |
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1438451547 (electronic book) |
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9781438451534 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1438451539 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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