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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MIAMI HERALD AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Men’s Journal • The Denver Post • Slate • The Kansas City Star • Time Out New York From the author of the critically beloved Pym (“Imagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne.”—Vanity Fair) comes a ruthlessly comic and moving tale of a man discovering a lost daughter, confronting an elusive ghost, and stumbling onto the possibility of utopia. “In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my father’s house.” Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures outside in the grass. When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of a teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl, Tal, is his daughter, and she’s been raised to think she’s white. Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter he’s never known, in a haunted house with a history he knows too well. In their search for a new life, he and Tal struggle with ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and ignite a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday for interracial lovers. A frequently hilarious, surprisingly moving story about blacks and whites, fathers and daughters, the living and the dead, Loving Day celebrates the wonders of opposites bound in love. Praise for Loving Day “Incisive . . . razor-sharp . . . that rare mélange: cerebral comedy with pathos. The vitality of our narrator deserves much of the credit for that. He has the neurotic bawdiness of Philip Roth’s Alexander Portnoy; the keen, caustic eye of Bob Jones in Chester Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him Go; the existential insight of Ellison’s Invisible Man.”—The New York Times Book Review “Exceptional . . . To say that Loving Day is a book about race is like saying Moby-Dick is a book about whales. . . . [Mat Johnson’s] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor. . . . Even when the novel’s family strife and racial politics are at peak intensity, Johnson’s comic timing is impeccable.”—Los Angeles Times “Johnson, at his best, is a powerful comic observer [and] a gifted writer, always worth reading on the topics of race and privilege.’”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Hilarious and touching new novel about family, identity and what it means to truly love other people . . . The disasters make us who we are, and the results can sometimes be amazing—as amazing as this beautiful, triumphant miracle of a book.”—NPR “Giddy, biting . . . ferocious . . . Grand metaphors, unsparing social commentary, sharp characters, and sharper humor help propel the book. . . . A welcome effort from a major talent.”—The Boston Globe From the Hardcover edition.

Loving V Virginia In A Post Racial World

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This book takes a critical approach to the US Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia.Download
The election of America's first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bird takes us into a world where people are struggling tobe heard, recognized, and celebrated for the racial diversity one would think is the epitome of America's melting pot persona. But being biracial or tri-racial brings unique challenges--challenges including prejudice, racism and, from within racial groups, colorism. Yet America is now experiencing a multiracial baby boom, with at least three states logging more multiracial baby births than any other race aside from Caucasians. As the Columbia Journalism Review reported, American demographics are no longer black and white. In truth, they are a blended, difficult-to-define shade of brown. Bird shows us the history of biracial and tri-racial people in the United States, and in European families and events. She presents the personal traumas and victories of those who struggle for recognition and acceptance in light of their racial backgrounds, including celebrities such as golf expert Tiger Woods, who eventually quit trying to describe himself as Cablanasin, a mix including Asian and African American. Bird examines current events, including the National Mixed Race Student Conference, and the push to dub this Generation MIX. And she examines how American demographics, government, and society are changing overall as a result. This work includes a guide to tracing your own racial roots. This volume explores the history, challenges, and psychological issues for-as well as prejudice against-people who have a mixed ancestry leaving them at neither end of the polar spectrum, neither Black nor White, but biracial ortri-racial.

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In our world, outside forces find reasons to keep us apart. Wealth, religion, and race are dividing factors. All manmade barriers that have nothing to do with the heart of the people involved. Although wealth and religion can be hidden, race cannot. On June 12th, 1967, the Supreme Court struck down the laws that enforced racial segregation in marriage and Loving Day was created. To celebrate this step to remove this unjust barrier to love, eight Interracial Romance authors have come together to celebrate with stories that challenge the social norms on both sides of the coin. With contemporary, paranormal and historical settings discover how finding the other half of your soul is worth fighting for.Download
The bestselling author of 'Spiritual Warrior' and 'The Path to Mastership' now offers a book of inspiring messages. Each page delivers a simple truth that can be appreciated at a glance or provide hours of revelation and contemplation.

Living And Loving Each Day

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Designed to be given as a gift and kept close at hand, this title provides tools and techniques to create 'moments of peace' anywhere and any time. National ads

Loving Each Day For Moms And Dads

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This is a book of bite-sized inspirational tidbits that can help parents raise happy, healthy kids. Perforated pages can be easily removed and placed on the fridge, mirror, or copied and sent to friends.Download
Making Multiracials explains how a social movement emerged around mixed race identity in the 1990s and how it made 'multiracial' a recognizable racial category in the United States.

Loving Rainy Days

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There’s nothing like trusting love to cleanse the soul…and the body. Rainy has worked hard to build a respectable tutoring business and she would do everything in her power to keep it, and her family’s name, from embarrassment. But when the weather blows a handsome distraction at her, can she let down her guard and learn to trust him, or will she let her insecurities ruin a love that heats her very soul? Miki is an entertainment lawyer, turned knight in shining armor. But will his heroism be enough to convince his beautiful neighbor to let him protect her forever? There’s no denying the passion that erupts between the two, and Miki is determined to slay all her enemies to share a lifetime beside her.

Johnson at the 2011 Texas Book Festival
Born	August 19, 1970 (age 48) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Education	Greene Street Friends School West Chester University University of Wales, Swansea
Alma mater	Earlham College, B.A. Columbia University School of the Arts, M.F.A.
Notable works	Pym Incognegro Loving Day
Website
matjohnson.info

Mat Johnson (born August 19, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American fiction writer who works in both prose and the comics format. In 2007, he was named the first USA James Baldwin Fellow by United States Artists.

Life and career[edit]

Johnson was born and raised in the Germantown and Mount Airy communities in Philadelphia.

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His mother is African-American and his father is Irish Catholic. He attended Greene Street Friends School, West Chester University, University of Wales, Swansea, and ultimately received his B.A. from Earlham College. In 1993 he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Johnson received his M.F.A. from Columbia University School of the Arts in 1999.^{[citation needed]}

Johnson has taught at Rutgers University, Columbia University, Bard College, and The Callaloo JournalIntroduction theme and variations rossini pdf reader pdf. Writers Retreat. He is a permanent faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Johnson lives in Houston.

Johnson's first novel, Drop (2000), was a coming-of-age novel about a self-hating Philadelphian who thinks he has found his escape when he takes a job at a Brixton-based advertising agency in London, U.K. The work was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; Interview magazine named Johnson as a 'Writer on the Verge'; and Drop was listed among 'Best Novels of the Year' by Progressive Magazine.

In 2003, Johnson published Hunting in Harlem (2003), a satire about gentrification in Harlem and an exploration of belief versus fanaticism. Hunting in Harlem won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Novel of the Year.

Johnson made his first move into the comics form with the publication of the five-issue limited seriesHellblazer Special: Papa Midnite (Vertigo 2005), where he took an existing character of the Hellblazer franchise and created an origin story that strove to offer depth and dignity to a character who was arguably a racial stereotype of the noble savage. The work was set in 18th-century Manhattan, and was based on the research that Johnson was conducting for his first historical work, The Great Negro Plot.

The Great Negro Plot is a creative nonfiction that recounts the New York Slave Insurrection of 1741 and the resultant trial and hysteria.^[1]

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In February 2008, Vertigo Comics published Johnson's graphic novelIncognegro, a noir mystery that deals with the issue of passing and the lynching past of the American South. The work is illustrated by British artist Warren Pleece with cover artwork by Stephen John Phillips.^[2]

From 2006–2007, Johnson wrote the blog Niggerati Manor, which discussed African-American literature and culture.

Awards[edit]

Johnson was named a 2007 USA James Baldwin Fellow^[3] and awarded a $50,000 grant by United States Artists, a public charity that supports and promotes the work of American artists. On September 21, 2011, Johnson was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature for his body of work focused on American themes and the human experience.^[4]

Works[edit]

Novels

• Drop (Bloomsbury USA, 2000)
• Hunting in Harlem (Bloomsbury USA, 2003)
• Pym (Random/Spiegel & Grau, 2011)
• Loving Day (Spiegel & Grau, 2015)

Nonfiction

• The Great Negro Plot (Bloomsbury USA, 2007)

Comics

• Hellblazer Special: Papa Midnite (Vertigo, 5-issue limited series, 2005; tpb, 2006, ISBN1-4012-1003-1)
• Incognegro (Vertigo, graphic novel, 2008, hardcover, ISBN1-4012-1097-X)
• Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story^[5] (Vertigo, graphic novel, 2010, 160 pages, ISBN978-1-4012-2160-7)
• Right State^[6] (Vertigo, graphic novel, 2012, 144 pages, ISBN1-4012-2943-3)

Anthologies

• Gumbo: Anthology of African American Literature (Harlem Moon, 2002)
• Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life (Amistad Press, 2002)
• Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience (W. W. Norton, 2006)
• Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness (Soft Skull Press, February 2012)^[7][8]

References[edit]

1. ^Johnson Tells the Unknown Origin of 'Hellblazer's' Papa Midnite in New Mini, Comic Book Resources, February 2, 2005.
2. ^Mat Johnson on Incognegro^{[permanent dead link]}, newsarama.com, November 29, 2007.
3. ^'About the Artists & Writers,' African-American Classics, Graphic Classics vol. 22 (Eureka Productions, 2011).
4. ^Emery, Mike. '2011 DOS PASSOS PRIZE AWARDED TO UH PROFESSOR MAT JOHNSON: AWARD RECOGNIZES AUTHORS WITH WORKS FOCUSED ON AMERICAN THEMES, HUMAN EXPERIENCE', University of Houston website (Sept. 12, 2011).
5. ^Staff (August 9, 2010). 'Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story'. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
6. ^Gallaher, Valerie (August 8, 2012). 'Review: Vertigo's 'Right State' A Tense And Topical Thriller Pulled Straight From The Headlines'. MTV Geek. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
7. ^Staff (December 12, 2011). 'Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. Edited by Rebecca Walker.', Publishers Weekly.
8. ^Staff (December 15, 2011). 'BLACK COOL – A collection of essays focused on the “cool” cultural legacy of African-Americans.', Kirkus Reviews.

External links[edit]

• 'Great Negro Plot' Tells of Manhattan on the Edge', News and Notes, National Public Radio, February 7, 2007. (Links to RealPlayer or Windows Media Audio)
• 'Rumors of a Slave Revolt', Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, February 28, 2007. (Links to MP3 audio)