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- About Me:
- James Baldwin accepted his responsibility to write truth as he saw it. Artists like Mos Def strain with the frustration of informing folks who no longer find value in the commerce of truth. Like James, Mos Def understands he has an obligation to teach the unconscious among us and "shine a light into the darkness,'cause there's a lot of darkness out there." So these are my words, my life shining, passing on what it was for this black boy becoming a man, becoming a human being in America.
- Occupation:
- Author/Educator/Speaker
- Education:
- B.A., Mass Comm., Spanish Minor, North Carolina State University, '98
[ ], Education and Psychology, NCSU Graduate School, 1998-99
- Contact Information:
- orondeash@mac.com
Box 33332
Raleigh, NC 27636
- Research Interests:
- Identity Formation in Adolescents
Black Male Adolescent Development
Nigressence
Critical Consciousness
Media as Pedagogy
- Publications:
- Fall 2008
"17 to Life: A Black Boy Memoir (On Accepting Love, Defining the Self & Living Free)"
Spring 2008,
"Blogger's Delight, Vol. I: Love and Redemption"
ISBN 978-0-9774126-4-8
- Another link:
- http://www.bygpowis.blogspot.com
FROM VINCENTIAN BOY TO AMERICAN MAN --A JOURNEY TOWARDS SELF-HOOD
bygINCpresents, OIL (BLACK AND LIQUID IN MODERNITY) --PT. 5, LEADERS
17 TO LIFE: A BLACK BOY MEMOIR (On Accepting Love, Defining the Self & Living Free) I came to America at age 9. Among the first things I learned was that I was poor and I was "black". Never was those things in ST. VINCENT. America began to weigh on me. What happened to people in "those" two categories? I had to make sense of my life in them. Below are my reflections on that journey. I WANT TO SHARE MY STORY. I will publish my memoir this summer. Until then, watch, enjoy, reflect on your days growing up, find ways to share your journey with others. I once read a review of literature from the Caribbean. All the islands were mentioned except St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This is my attempt to change that view.
VIDEO #1 -- THE NEW IMMIGRANT A boy starts his journey to manhood. What does America look like to a 9-yr old black immigrant from the Caribbean?
VIDEO #2--THE NEW IMMIGRANT--DINING IN AMERICA The elementary lunchroom table presents the flavors of America. The decision becomes what is nourishment. Will you eat or will you dine?
VIDEO #3--THE NEW IMMIGRANT--A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN We move from an affluent white community in New Jersey to Brooklyn, NY. I flourish academically but the realities of city living begin to trouble my family. America is turning from Land of Opportunity to simply... Survival!
VIDEO #4--BLACK BOY MIDDLE SCHOOL, PT. 1-- Middle School is a turning point in young, black male life. You're a small fish having to swim in dangerous waters and start figuring things out on your own... A lot of things.
VIDEO #5--BLACK BOY MIDDLE SCHOOL, PT. 2-- My first year in middle school was survival. Once I figured out the rules I could make choices about survival. The more I acted on my choices, the more truth I saw in me. Black life was becoming clearer still. My life was becoming clearer still.
VIDEO #6--BLACK BOY MIDDLE SCHOOL, PT. 3-- More info, more answers, more questions. Long, dead voices ask to speak. I begin to clear the clutter, find my voice and sound truth.
VIDEO #7--BLACK BOY MIDDLE SCHOOL, PT. 4-- Valedictorian. The smartest kid in school. Time to apply that know-how to life. No need for intelligence if it's not an agent for change. Junior high is ending. Something else awaits that needs a new man.
VIDEO #8--BLACK BOY MIDDLE SCHOOL, PT. 5 --I begin to use the lessons from school to solve my family issues. I decide to do it on my own.
VIDEO #9--BLACK BOY MIDDLE SCHOOL, PT. 6 --1990 was a pivotal year in world history. The Berlin Wall, Mandela in South Africa, the demise of communism. I kept asking myself to change my life for the good, get over my issues with my mother and family.
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