Author: Guy Watts
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: keepin
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2002-08-15
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0595238297
ISBN-13: 9780595238293

Bobby walks home from school, along streets littered with drug users and gang-bangers. He resists the comforting call of the streets, because he wants more from his life. Elena visits her sister, a teen-aged mother, whose life is so drastically different from the one Elena sees for herself. On the cusp of entering high school, they each struggle to keep their dreams alive, carefully avoiding the pitfalls which have claimed too many of their friends. The additional stress of an interracial relationship is the last thing either wants, but in each other, they find comfort and calm. Togethe

Author: Leslie Esdaile
Publisher: Kensington
Keywords: real, keepin
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-05-03
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0758208596
ISBN-13: 9780758208590

Author: Josaphat-Robert Large
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: poems, keepin
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 2006-03-02
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0595388892
ISBN-13: 9780595388899

Josaphat-Robert Large is a well known Francophone poet. As fresh as the morning dew, his verses cull their essence from the multicultural tapestry found throughout the Caribbean Islands. In French as in Creole, Large’s poetry translates the day-to-day expressions of the people from these picturesque lands, all the while transmitting the essential qualities of authentic poetical forms. Large is also a Novelist and his latest Les terres entourées de larmes (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2002) (Lands surrounded by tears), won the first Prize of the best French Caribbean Book for the year 2003. The

Authors:Jean Ispa, Kathy R., Ph.D. Thornburg, Mark A. Fine,
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Keywords: poverty, families, struggles, everyday, keepin
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 2006-03-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1557667810
ISBN-13: 9781557667816

This book grows out of a five-year research project aimed at understanding the strengths and challenges of urban families who face issues related to young single-parenthood, racial minority status, and poverty in an era of welfare reform. The authors share insights regarding individual, family, community, and program factors that facilitate and/or constrain the effectiveness of intervention programs with these children and their families. The book addresses many important topics (Early Head Start, home visiting, relationships, transition, poverty, welfare reform) and describes a well-designed

Authors:Shani Greene-Dowdell, Carla Dean, Christopher Greene
Publisher: Shanibooks
Keywords: tight, keepin
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2007-05-28
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0615150748
ISBN-13: 9780615150741

What happens when two women and one man suffer devastating pain in their love lives and are all looking for some one to mend their hearts? Do they go on to a love triangle... or pure unadulterated drama? With all of the heart knocks she has suffered, Lela James has all but given up on finding true love. That’s until she meets Cornelius Johnston at the James Family Reunion. Neil is a hardworking, successful black man who is prepared to give her the world. And their world is indeed perfect except for one thing...his ever present, sexy blond protege, Amanda Broady, who is fighting for

Author: Prudence L. Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: black, studies, politics, communities, boundaries, transgressing, school, success, keepin, real
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-03-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195325230
ISBN-13: 9780195325232

How can we help African American and Latino students perform better in the classroom and on exams? In Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, Prudence Carter argues that what is needed is a broader recognition of the unique cultural styles and practices that non-white students bring to the classroom. Based on extensive interviews and surveys of students in New York, she demonstrates that the most successful negotiators of our school systems are the multicultural navigators, culturally savvy teens who draw from multiple traditions, whether it be knowledge of hip hop or of

Author: Prudence L. Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: black, studies, politics, communities, boundaries, transgressing, school, success, keepin, real
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0195168623
ISBN-13: 9780195168624

Why are so many African American and Latino students performing less well than their Asian and White peers in classes and on exams? Researchers have argued that African American and Latino students who rebel against "acting white" doom themselves to lower levels of scholastic, economic, and social achievement. In Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White, Prudence Carter turns the conventional wisdom on its head arguing that what is needed is a broader recognition of the unique cultural styles and practices that non-white students bring to the classroom. Based on extensive i