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ABOUT BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS<\/em>\u00a9<\/strong><\/p>\n When 17-year-old enslaved girl Addis escapes from her enslaver, the first president of the young country Amerika, she unwittingly becomes the face of the greatest conflict in the nation\u2019s short history. On the run for her life, with unlikely friends and a world of enemies,\u00a0Addis\u00a0becomes the most wanted person alive and a global symbol of hope for enslaved people longing for freedom.<\/p>\n Written in an 18th\u00a0Century Black Diasporic vernacular, the 2017 Phillis Wheatley First Fiction Book Award and BCALA Literary Award-winning\u00a0Book of Addis <\/em>reaches back in time to explore the intergenerational impact of oppression and plots a daring path into the future. An epic tale of love, loss, and the cost of liberation,\u00a0Book of Addis: Cradled Embers<\/em> is the first novel in the 3-part literary fiction series Book of Addis<\/em>.<\/p>\n PRAISE FOR BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS<\/em>\u00a9<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards Jury<\/p>\n \u2014 Susan Cheever, best-selling\/award-winning author,\u00a0Drinking in America: Our Secret History<\/em><\/p>\n ON SALE NOW:\u00a0<\/strong>bit.ly\/BuyBookofAddis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A For the People Press Paperback\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong>ISBN:\u00a0978-0-692-72106-3| Price: $16.99<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n Brooke C. Obie is the award-winning author of the alternative history novel BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS. The first in a 3-part series, BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS won the 2017 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for First Fiction and the 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award for self-published fiction. Brooke is a graduate of Hampton University, summa cum laude, Mercer University School of Law, where she served as the first Black Eleventh Circuit Survey Editor of the Mercer Law Review, and The New School\u2019s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Fiction program, where her novel proposal, which became BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS, was a finalist for the Fulbright Fellowship. She\u2019s attended Columbia University\u2019s writer\u2019s workshop in Paris, France and the Callaloo Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters Creative Writing Workshop at Oxford University. She lives happily in Harlem.<\/p>\n BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS\u00a9 SYLLABUS<\/strong><\/p>\n BY BROOKE C. OBIE, COPYRIGHT 2016<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n “I woke now, sure enough.” –Taddy<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These books, films, musical selections, museums influenced the creation of Book of Addis\u00a9<\/em>.<\/p>\n REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK MOTHERHOOD <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n “Put a woman in a tight space, she liable to do anything.” \u2013Dido<\/strong><\/p>\n Kincaid, Jamaica, The Autobiography of My Mother<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ladner, Joyce, Tomorrow\u2019s Tomorrow: The Black Woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n Morrison, Toni, Beloved<\/a>.<\/p>\n National Black Women\u2019s Reproductive Justice organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shire, Warsan, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth<\/a>.<\/p>\n Walker, Alice, The Color Purple<\/a>.<\/p>\n MISOGYNOIR<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMore joy, more love, more time to be more when you\u00a0aint\u00a0got to get nobody off your neck.\u201d–The Griot<\/strong><\/p>\n Crenshaw, Kimberl\u00e9. \u201cMapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.\u201d Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (July 1991): 1241-1299.<\/a><\/p>\n Hurston, Zora Neale, How it Feels to Be Colored Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lorde, Audre, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches<\/a>.<\/p>\n Morrison, Toni, The Bluest Eye<\/a>.<\/p>\n Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, editor.\u00a0How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.<\/a><\/p>\n Trudy, \u201cExplanation of Misogynoir,\u201d Gradient Lair, April 28, 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wallace, Michelle, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n DECONSTRUCTING WHITE MASCULINE IDEOLOGY AND REIMAGINING BLACK MASCULINITY<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYou think cause a no-color man say he own her that she up to be owned?\u201d \u2013Taddy<\/strong><\/p>\n Brave, Richie, \u201cThe Masculine Un-Masculine Masculine Male,\u201d Tumblr. Oct. 25, 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n Byrd, Rudolph P. and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, eds. Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality<\/a>.<\/p>\n hooks, bell, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity<\/a>.<\/p>\n hooks, bell, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love<\/a>.<\/p>\n McLean, Shay Akil. \u201cPatriarchy and Gender Lesson Plan.\u201d Web blog post. Decolonize All the Things: The UNsettlilng Reflections of a Decolonial Scientist in a Constant State of Rage. Web 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Moonlight. Dir.\u00a0 Barry Jenkins. A24, 2016. Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n Newton, Huey P. “To The Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters About The Women\u2019s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements” 15 August 1970<\/a>.<\/p>\n Smith, Mychael Denzel. Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n THE POWER OF WRITING AND SPEAKING IN THE VERNACULAR<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n “Have your own something.” –The Griot<\/strong><\/p>\n Ahmad, Dora, Rotten English, A Literary Anthology<\/a>.<\/p>\n Iweala, Uzodinma, Beasts of No Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n James, Marlon, Book of Night Women<\/a>.<\/p>\n Randall, Dudley. The Black Poets<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n BLACK PROTEST AND REVOLUTION<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThere be sides to this thing.\u201d–The Griot<\/strong><\/p>\n Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n C\u00e9saire, Aime, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land<\/a>.<\/p>\n Davis, Angela, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Davis, Angela, Are Prisons Obsolete?<\/a><\/p>\n Equiano, Olaudah, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano<\/a>.<\/p>\n Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners. Dir. Shola Lynch. Realside Productions, 2013. Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n Just Mercy. Dir. Destin Daniel Cretton. Endeavor Content, MACRO Productions, Outlier Society Productions, 2020. Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n Oney Judge (woman who escaped from George Washington and inspired BOOK OF ADDIS).<\/a><\/p>\n Shakur, Assata, Assata<\/a>.<\/p>\n Simone, Nina. Revolution YouTube Playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stevenson, Bryan,\u00a0Just Mercy<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n The Black Power Mixtape. Dir. \u00a0G\u00f6ran Olsson. Story AB, 2011. Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Wells, Ida B., The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader<\/a>.<\/p>\n Williams, Chancellor, The Destruction of Black Civilization<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n THE HISTORY OF AFRICANS IN AMERICA <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThey kill a oji in flesh or spirit, for\u00a0the good of the whole<\/em>,\u00a0then hide they bloody hands beneath white gloves.\u201d –The Griot<\/strong><\/p>\n 13th. Dir. Ava Duvernay. Kandoo Films, 2016. Film<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Alexander, Michelle, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/a>.<\/p>\n Berlin, Ira, The Making of African America<\/a>.<\/p>\n Chambers, Douglas B. Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Constitution of the United States<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Douglass, Frederick, A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written\u00a0 By Himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Federalist Papers<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n The Fugitive Slave Acts<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross<\/a> (book and documentary series).<\/p>\n George Washington\u2019s Mount Vernon<\/a><\/p>\n Haley, Alex. Roots<\/em>: The Saga of an American Family<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n Legacy Museum: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration. Montgomery, Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Montgomery, Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n National Museum of African American History and Culture. Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/p>\n The Rokeby Museum, Ferrishburg, Vermont<\/a>.<\/p>\n Roots. Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky. David L. Wolper Productions, 1977. TV miniseries<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Slavery by Another Name: The Documentary Film. Dir. Sam Pollard. tpt National Productions, 2012. Film<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n IGBO AND YORUBA CULTURE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cEboe be for truth telling.\u201d–The Griot<\/strong><\/p>\n Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart<\/a><\/p>\n Adichie, Chimamanda, Americanah<\/a>.<\/p>\n Adichie, Chimamanda, Half of a Yellow Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bayuba Cante, \u201cYemaya.\u201d Song<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kuti, Fela. Greatest Hits. YouTube Playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n“Raw, breathtaking, and inspiring.”<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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