Karsonya Wise Whitehead: 3 books
Notes from a Colored Girl
The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one-year-old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis's worldviews and politics, her perceptions...
Letters to My Black Sons
Raising Boys In a Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
"I want you to be fully present in your own life, a change agent who is not afraid to dare to be who you are. I wonder though, my dear sweet child, how I can mother you when I have not been able to mother myself? How can I give you the tools to survive this brutal world when I have not been able...
by Karsonya Wise Whitehead Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
In Sparking the Genius, Whitehead outlines the Critical Moments in American History that defined both the beginning of the early Civil Rights Movement—with the release of the Emancipation Proclamation—and the modern Civil Rights Movement in 1963. Starting with the Birmingham Campaign (Project C),...