BOOK BERNESTINE for a lecture, workshop, reading/signing

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Using her award-winning book as a platform, Singley takes insights specific to your venue and weaves them into a provocative, thoughtful, and sometimes even humorous race conversation with your audience.

A refreshing new voice on the lecture circuit, Singley storms the stage with an inviting message: “In a diverse world where race is still the issue, being real is still the answer."

Also available to create seminars, workshops, and study guides tailored to your organization.

Please include your name, contact information, the name and description of your organization, the date of the event, the number of attendees expected, and any special requests.

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For press kits, review copies, or other information, contact:

Catherine Bosin, Publicity Manager
Independent Publishers Group
814 North Franklin Street, Chicago, IL 60610
312-337-0747 ext. 240
cbosin@ipgbook.com
www.ipgbook.com

Dr. Julianne Malveaux

~BREATHING ROOM~


Books, websites, and news by and about WHEN RACE BECOMES REAL contributors.

Leonard Pitts wins 2004 Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished commentary"


Pitts Wins Pulitzer Prize
Pitts thanks his "first reader" for putting him on the Pulitzer path

Les Payne Named Newsday New York Editor


Payne Promoted at Newsday

...Fresh air from NEW RELEASES!!!


Derrick Bell's SILENT COVENANTS: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (Oxford University Press 2004)


Flanked by people of color on a panel, Robert Jensen feels superior...naturally. (May 2004)
Robert Jensen's CITIZENS OF THE EMPIRE: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights 2004)

Patricia J. Williams' OPEN HOUSE: Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons, and a Search for a Room of My Own (Farrar, Straus, Giroux November 2004)

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...Sustained breathing from TIMELESS INSIGHTS


Joycelyn Moody's SENTIMENTAL CONFESSIONS: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women (University of Georgia Press 2003).

Beverly Daniel Tatum's WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA? And Other Conversations About Race (Basic Books 1999)

Julianne Malveaux's UNFINISHED BUSINESS: A Democrat and a Republican Take on the Top Ten Issues Women Face (Berkeley Publishing Group 2002)

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...A breathtaking PERSONAL GEOGRAPHY


Michael Patrick MacDonald's ALL SOULS: A Family Story from Southie (Beacon Press 1999)

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...Feeling Payne


LES PAYNE on why Randall Robinson has given up on the US...


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...Deep breathing


TOURE, the Right Revren Daddy Love, et al., tear it up in Soul City
KIINI IBURA SALAAM, writer, painter, human being extraordinaire, travels the world and takes us along

Outstanding Links

Africanaonline.com
AlterNet.org
Black Commentator.com
CommonDreams.org
CounterPunch.org
Exittheapple: Brightest City Lights
HeroicStories.com
Indigenous Voices Worldwide
Joyce King, "HATE CRIME: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas"
Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Behavior
Real Life Race Relations
Richard Prince's JOURNAL-ISMS
Safundi: South African & American Comparative Studies
The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
SpeakOut - Institute for Democratic Culture & Education
WorkingforChange.com
ZMag.org
Authors Guild
E-mail me


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Other Works


WHEN RACE BECOMES REAL


Table of Contents
Authors and chapter titles

Review Excerpts

Book chapter excerpt
Remember the gruesome truck lynching in Jasper, Texas? Welcome to my world.

Audio Clips on NPR
Want Les Payne, Susan Straight, Leonard Pitts, Robert Jensen, Kimberly Springer, and Natalie Angier to read you excerpts from their chapters in WHEN RACE BECOMES REAL?

How about hearing National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates interview editor Bernestine Singley to find out how the book came to be?


More in Print


"The Old Wink and Nod"
Book review of UNDERGROUND CODES: RACE, CRIME, AND RELATED FIRES," by Katheryn Russell-Brown (New York University Press 2004), published in the "Women’s Review of Books," Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, June 2004.

"Murder and the Reasonable Man"
Book review of MURDER AND THE REASONABLE MAN: PASSION AND FEAR IN THE CRIMINAL COURTROOM, by Cynthia Lee, published in the "Women’s Review of Books," Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, January 2004.


"Bearing Witness"
“Bearing Witness,” KENTECLOTH: SOUTHWEST VOICES OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, Jas. Mardis, ed. (Denton: University of North Texas Press 1997).


South African Safari
A decade of marriage merited a memorable celebration. Mission accomplished.

"White Friends"
My chapter in CHILDREN OF THE DREAM: OUR OWN STORIES OF GROWING UP BLACK IN AMERICA (New York: Pocket Books, January 1999)

"The New South Africa: Warm and Welcoming"
A slightly different version was originally published as “The New South Africa—Warm and Welcoming,” Heart & Soul Magazine (May 1999, p. 85).

"Take Me to the Water"
Short story in TEXAS SHORT STORIES 2, Billy Bob Hill & Laurie Champion, eds. (Browder Springs 2000)

"Heat"
Short story in "TEX! A Magazine of Texas Fiction, Poetry and Art."

"The Tutu"
Excerpt from a work-in-progress.

In progress


~Tall Skinny Tales: a memoir trilogy

~Fiction: a novel... a prequel... a sequel...

Featured Pieces from the "Other Works" Section

A peek inside WHEN RACE BECOMES REAL
Table of Contents
A listing of authors and anthology chapter titles
Review Excerpts
Clips from reviews
Book chapter excerpt
"Jasper, Texas Elegy"
Audio Clips on NPR
Links to selected authors reading chapter excerpts on NPR
Bernestine in Literary Journals
"The Old Wink and Nod"
Why bother with the facts when it's so easy to keep believing the hype?
"Murder and the Reasonable Man"
Mix evidence and prejudice with a jury, then stir.
"Heat"
Sun isn't the only thing that sets stuff on fire.
"The Tutu"
You're never too young to learn the hard lessons of desire.
Bernestine in Other Anthologies
"Bearing Witness"
When the thing you most fear finally happens, then what?
"White Friends"
Some of my best friends are white. Some aren't.
"Take Me to the Water"
A piece of Texas fiction...or is it?
Bernestine's Magazine Articles
South African Safari
In 1998 we saw the Garden of Eden.
"The New South Africa: Warm and Welcoming"
Five years ago, reality hadn't yet trumped hope.

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