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Urban Improvisations: Alternative Perspectives on the African American Experience
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How do black men and women achieve intimacy in the club life? Can a vibrant, attractive black woman on the plus side find self-actualization? What does a line dance mean to black women when it is exploited to extreme limits?
What does love between a Black man and a Black woman mean in postmodern America? How does a black man express affection to a black woman in a society that views all that is distinctly African American has pass all but the commercial use of the word Nigger?
What does interracial relationship mean to lovers in competitive corporate America? What does the love of the ancestors mean to a drug addict? What mark does the history of sexual exploitation on leave on a young black couple seeking their own private little niche?
These are the questions our writing explores. We write from the unique prospective of the social worker. Our profession requires us to intimately engage the struggles of men, women and children to overcome personal histories of abuse and neglect. Our fiction springs from our experiences of becoming one with the persons who still suffer under the legacy the middle passage to America.
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Release dateNov 17, 2014
ISBN9781496916549
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Christopher Ronu Lindsay

My oldest brother died during child birth under circumstances never spoken by my parents. I am the oldest brother of two younger sisters. I was born on the cusp between Pieces and Aries in 1952 to teenage parents who were themselves making a life on the cusp between the Jim Crow South and the somewhat more subtle Jim Crow North. My life has been a searching for a meaning in the nebulous steaming mist between fire and water, between fear and devastating loss. My parents and my sheltered West Philadelphia community implored me to be safe and finding security in, “I don’t care what you do, just be good at it.” But the boiling cauldron of the middle world is ever changing, undulating between creation and destruction, abhorring permanence - perspectives ever shifting. My life has been a succession of half efforts, fleeting successes, confusion and failure until I sat at the keyboard and surrendered to the perpetual eruptions of my temperament. It is from the cusp I write.

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