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The darkest parts of my Blackness : a journey of remorse, reform, reconciliation, and (r)evolution / Maurice Tyree and Katie Singer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tyree, Maurice, author.
- Singer, Katie, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Black Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tyree, Maurice.
- Ex-convicts--United States--Biography.
- Ex-convicts.
- Prisoners--United States--Biography.
- Prisoners.
- African American men--Biography.
- African American men.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Long Island, New York : Lived Places Publishing, 2024.
- Summary:
- The story of Maurice Tyree's experience of incarceration and transformation, as told through the letters and poems he wrote.
- Contents:
- Frontcover
- Front Matter
- Half-title
- Title page
- Dedication
- Copyright information
- Abstract
- Author's Note
- Publisher's Note
- Table of contents
- Content warning
- Learning objectives
- Chapter Int-6
- Introduction: letter to the court
- (Not) the beginning
- A human condition
- Not somewhere you want to be
- The effort of conversion
- Teaching and learning
- The end of one chapter
- 1 Fending for myself
- Man, woman, family
- Co-author's note
- A father's role
- A changing mind
- 2 No more keeping it to myself
- Legacies
- True religion
- Looking back
- I was sick
- A kind of freedom
- Tell somebody
- 3 Sankofa
- Instincts
- Ancestral patterns
- Knowing history
- Boys and girls
- Parenting different
- 4 Cousins, comrades, cellies, friends, and teachers
- Father figures
- Deep discussion
- Some prison life
- African Americans
- Philosophies and practice
- Witness
- Black dreams
- Studies
- One more thing
- 5 Letter of resignation
- A Black Oath: A Pledge of Allegiance for Black People by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing1
- 6 "Mental health's undocumented and oppressive continuum"
- Section II: 2014 Hazelton, 2015 Butner
- Forward III: Hazelton 2012
- Section III: Butner
- Conclusion
- End Matter
- References
- Recommended further reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Tyree, Maurice. The darkest parts of my blackness.
- ISBN:
- 9781915734303
- 1915734304
- 9781915734310
- 1915734312
- OCLC:
- 1455127784
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