Nasihah Jones

Broschiertes Buch

Black Salt for White Eyes

A Memoir

Beschreibung

Black Salt for White Eyes was a title that came to Nasihah in a vision one day after critically thinking about his journey from an incarcerated teenager to an educated free adult. It is inspired by the Hebrew passage of the Torah where Yahweh instructs the Children of Israel of their profound greatness but warns that, if forsaken by themselves, they shall be trodden under the foot of other men. Nasihah Jones uses this passage as the framework for constructing a new ideology of liberation for himself and his community - Newburgh and other urban black and brown communities - ravaged by institutional racism and what he considers a form of mental insanity developed by racial oppression. This book is on one hand a memoir of the life of Nasihah Jones from his early childhood years in a violent urban ghetto to the few years after his release from prison. On the other hand, it is also a treatise on the relationship of the young urban black male with the system of white supremacy and racism. "Black Salt for White Eyes" examines the system that relentlessly erases the black male - and black female - and provides a well-scripted narrative that allows young black males through self-hatred to commit black on black genocide. This book offers a blueprint for self-discovery and transformation, using the author's own life as a positive example.

Autor

By the time Nasihah Jones was eight years old he had taught himself how to draw and paint as a means of escaping the harsh reality that surrounded his childhood. At an early age he was recognized as "The Artist" by family and friends. At the same time, he was growing up in one of the nation's most violent and poorest communities (Newburgh, NY) where the scourge of the crack-cocaine era left many urban cities further marginalized and neighborhoods ruled by gangs, drug dealers and urban warfare. Feeling trapped and terrorized by the culture of murder and poverty around him, Nasihah found himself entangled in a fatal confrontation with a neighborhood gang member and drug dealer who threatened three times to kill him. His act of obvious self-defense becomes deliberately twisted by prosecutorial misconduct and at 15 years old, Nasihah is convicted of murder and sentenced to nine years to life in prison. Nasihah's own life in prison echoed that of Malcolm X, whom he admired and studied carefully. He took charge of his own redemption, education, and ultimately his own transformation until he was freed from his wrongful murder conviction. Nasihah Jones earned a bachelor's degree in Anthropology from SUNY Purchase and a master's degree from SUNY New Paltz in Humanistic/Multicultural Education. He currently lives in Washington, DC, and is employed as a high school educator in Southeast, DC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Epigraph Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781951937775
• ISBN-10: 1951937775
• Artikelnr.: 60900425