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Dock Pod with Dom: Crown, Stay fresh Work hard

Crown was my co-host today and I gave a perspective on the Verzuz between the Lox and Dipset

Down the River unto the Sea

in this episode I explore the idea of my co-host being a book and who my first co-host is.

OnShore - ”The Business of Lovers: A Novel” with Author Eric Jerome Dickey

All is fair in love and lust in New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey’s tale of two brothers, four women, and the business of desire.Unlike their younger brother, André, whose star as a comedian is rising, neither Dwayne nor Brick Duquesne is having luck with his career—and they’re unluckier still in love. Former child star Dwayne has just been fired from his latest acting role and barely has enough money to get by after paying child support to his spiteful former lover, while Brick struggles to return to his uninspiring white-collar job after suffering the dual blows of a health emergency and a nasty breakup with the woman he still loves.Neither brother is looking to get entangled with a woman anytime soon, but love—and lust—has a way of twisting the best-laid plans. When Dwayne tries to reconnect with his teenage son, he finds himself fighting to separate his animosity from his attraction for his son’s mother, Frenchie. And Brick’s latest source of income—chauffeur and bodyguard to three smart, independent women temporarily working as escorts in order to get back on their feet—opens a world of possibility in both love and money. Penny, Christiana, and Mocha Latte know plenty of female johns who would pay top dollar for a few hours with a man like Brick . . . if he can let go of his past, embrace his unconventional new family, and allow strangers to become lovers.
 
About the Author
Eric Jerome Dickey is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five novels as well as a six-issue miniseries of graphic novels featuring Storm (X-Men) and the Black Panther. Originally from Memphis, Dickey now lives on the road and rests in whatever hotel will have him.

OnShore -"Pale" with Author Edward A. Farmer

Description
"Some things just don't keep well inside this house ..."
The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd's invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household.
The secrets of the house are plentiful yet the silence that has encompassed it for so many years suddenly breaks with the arrival of the harvest and the appearance of Jesse and Fletcher to the plantation as cotton pickers. These two brothers, the sons of the house servant Silva, awaken a vengeful seed within the Missus of the house as she plots to punish not only her husband but Silva's family as well. When the Missus starts flirting with Jesse, she sets into motion a dangerous game that could get Jesse killed and destroy the lives of the rest of the servants.
Bernice walks the fine line between emissary and accomplice, as she tries her best to draw secrets from the Missus's heart, while using their closeness to protect the lives of the people around her. Once the Missus's plans are complete, families will be severed, loyalties will be shattered, and no one will come out unscathed.
With a dazzling voice and rich emotional tension, Pale explores the ties that bind and how quickly humanity can fade and return us to primal ways.
Edward A. Farmer is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, where he journaled and cultivated stories his entire childhood. He is a graduate of Amherst College with a degree in English and psychology, and recipient of the MacArthur-Leithauser Travel Award for creative writing. He currently lives and writes in Pasadena, California. Pale is his first novel.
 

OnShore - "Conjure Women" with Author Afia Atakora

Description:
"Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother's footsteps as a midwife; and their master's daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom."--Publisher's description.
 
Afia Atakora was born in the United Kingdom and raised in New Jersey, where she now lives. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA from Columbia University, where she was the recipient of the De Alba Fellowship. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers.

OnShore - "Remembrance" with Author Rita Woods

"Stunning. ... Family is at the core of Remembrance, the breathtaking debut novel by Rita Woods." -- The Boston Globe. This breakout historical debut with modern resonance is perfect for the many fans of The Underground Railroad and Orphan Train.Remembrance…It’s a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy…if you can make it there.Ohio, present day. An elderly woman who is more than she seems warns against rising racism as a young nurse grapples with her life.Haiti, 1791, on the brink of revolution. When the slave Abigail is forced from her children to take her mistress to safety, she discovers New Orleans has its own powers.1857 New Orleans—a city of unrest: Following tragedy, house girl Margot is sold just before her promised freedom. Desperate, she escapes and chases a whisper.... Remembrance.
RITA WOODS is a family doctor and the director of a wellness center. When she's not busy working or writing Dr. Woods spends time with her family or at the Homer Glen library where she served on the board for ten years. Remembrance is her first novel.

DPH - "The Organ Thieves" with Author Chip Jones

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.
 
In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker's death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family's permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s.
 
Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, The Organ Thieves is a story that resonates now more than ever, when issues of race and healthcare are the stuff of headlines and horror stories.
Author BioChip Jones has been reporting for nearly thirty years for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Roanoke Times, Virginia Business magazine, and others. As a reporter for The Roanoke Times, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Pittston coal strike. He is the former communications director of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, which is where he first discovered the heart stopping story in The Organ Thieves.

DPH - Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present; A Conversation with Author Dr. Sherrow O Pinder

Brief Description:In Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present, Sherrow O. Pinder has brought together the writings and discourses central to black political thought and African American politics, compiling a unique anthology of speeches and articles from over 150 years of African American history. Providing in-depth examinations and critical analyses of topics such as slavery, reconstruction, race and racism, black nationalism and black feminism - from a range of perspectives - students are equipped with a comprehensive and informative account of how these issues have fundamentally shaped and continue to shape black political thinking. Each of the six thematic parts is framed by an introduction written by black scholars working in the field, and a list of further readings. Individual chapters are then enhanced by end-of-chapter questions and author biographies. Written for the interdisciplinary field of black studies, and other social science and humanities disciplines, this textbook offers a unique resource for political scientists, sociologists, historians, feminists, and the general reader of black political thought.
 
Table of Contents:Preface; Introduction; Key concepts, ideas, and issues that have formed black political thought Sherrow O. Pinder; Part I. Slavery and its Discontents: Let your Motto Be Resistance! Resistance! Resistance! Brenda E. Stevenson; 1. Our wretchedness in consequence of slavery David Walker; 2. An address to the slaves of the United States Henry Highland Garnet; 3. Comparative condition of the colored people of the United States Martin Robison Delany; 4. What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass; 5. Why sit ye here and die Maria Stewart; Part II. Reconstruction: Nikki Lynne Marie Brown; 6. Of the dawn of freedom W. E. B. Du Bois; 7. Political independence of the Negro T. Thomas Fortune; 8. The case of the Negro Booker T. Washington; Part III. Black Nationalism: Babacar M'Baye; 9. A vindication of the capacity of the Negro race for self-government, and civilized progress James Theodore Holly; 10. The true solution of the Negro problem Marcus Garvey; 11. Toward black liberation Stokely Carmichael; Part IV. Race and Racism: Cahrisse Burden-Stelly; 12. The race-problem in America Alexander Crummell; 13. The conservation of the races W. E. B. Du Bois; 14. Lynch laws in all its phases Ida B. Wells; Part V. Feminism and Difference: Sherrow O. Pinder; 15. The progress of colored women Mary Church Terrell; 16. What's in a name? Womanism, black feminism and beyond Patricia Hill Collins; 17. To be black, male, and 'feminist' - making womanist space for black men Gary L. Lemons; Part VI. Past, Present, and Future Issues: Erica Cooper; 18. Whiteness as property Cheryl I. Harris; 19. Whiteness, racism, and identity Barbara J. Fields; 20. The antidemocratic power of whiteness Kathleen Neal Cleaver; Glossary; Index.
Editor Bio:  Pinder, Sherrow OSherrow O. Pinder, Professor of Political Science at California State University, Chico is the author of several books and serves as the 'Race Politics in the United States' Series Editor at Anthem Press. She works primarily in the areas of race, gender, and ethnic politics in the United States, social welfare policy, black political thought, globalization studies and whiteness studies. In 2018, Pinder was invited to present her work, 'The Liminality of Whiteness and its Problematics for Race Politics in the United States', at the Newberry Scholarly Seminar in American Literature.
 
 

DPH - Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering; A Conversation with Authors Dr. Boyce and Dr. Chunnu

Historicizing Fear is a historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppression is used in the present day. Contributors ground their work in the theory of Othering—the reductive action of labeling a person as someone who belongs to a subordinate social category defined as the Other—in relation to historical events, demonstrating that fear of the Other is universal, timeless, and interconnected. Chapters address the music of neo-Nazi white power groups, fear perpetuated through the social construct of black masculinity in a racially hegemonic society, the terror and racial cleansing in early twentieth-century Arkansas, the fear of drug-addicted Vietnam War veterans, the creation of fear by the Tang Dynasty, and more.
 
 
About the Author
Travis D. Boyce is chair of African-American studies at San Jose State University. His research interests are in contemporary African American history and popular culture, especially the intersection of race, fashion, and social media in the sporting world. He has authored or coauthored chapters in several edited collections and peer-reviewed journals. His most recent work, “Reproducing Lynching and Spectacle: The Burning and Desecration of Colin Kaepernick’s Jersey,” is part of the edited volume Racism and Discrimination in the Sporting World. Winsome M. Chunnu is director of Multicultural Programs at Ohio University. Her areas of expertise are educational policy, policy implementation, race and politics, and popular culture. She has coauthored chapters in several edited collections and her work has been published in TheJournal of Pan African Studies, the Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and the International Journal of Education and Research.

DPH - "River of Blood"; A Conversation with Author Richard Cahan

Conversation with Richard Cahan, author of "River of Blood". 
In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration’s efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and during the Civil War. The workers asked them probing questions about slave life. What did they think about their slaveholders? What songs did they sing? What games did they play? Did they always think about escaping?
The result was a remarkable compilation of interviews known as the Slave Narratives.
This book highlights those narratives―condensing tens of thousands of pages into short excerpts from about 100 former slaves. It pairs their accounts with their portraits, taken by the workers sent to record their stories.