Hey! My cousin is an author too!
Check her out here. She writes Christian fiction. Haven't had a chance to check it out yet but will asap cuz!
Posted by Debra J Dickerson at 1/22/2010 3:03 PM 
Categories: novels,race,religion
Tags: black Catholics
Categories: novels,race,religion
Tags: black Catholics
Thanks for the shout out! Luv you cuz!
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Hi Debra:
Since reading "The End of Blackness" some years back, I've always wondered what you think about Blacks' use of the word nigger, as slang? Initially, I was stunned to hear the word used in public (and, for the most part, still am). After reading your book, however, I asked myself the following questions: Why do Black people feel the need to hold on to the pain associated with this word? Are younger Blacks liberating their generation from such pain by completely divesting the word of any power? Is their use of this word, in the presence of whites, a signal to whites that power once exercised (with the simple utterance of a word) no longer exists? Is such theorizing on the subject an attempt to make excuses for bad behavior, or is it a matter of freeing ourselves from that "last plantation?"
What do you think?
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Just wanted to say hello to Debra, I used to teach her son. (Didn't know how to contact you. Hope all is well.)
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