Bernadette Pruitt

Locke Does It Again!

Revisado: 07-01-24

Locke's ability to keep readers engaged, enthrallled, and in love with both the chatacters and story is priceless. The novelist is a gifted writer who values the beauty of East Texas and Texas Blackness! Giving Easy Texas a national platorm in this realm is extraordinary!

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The author has the canny ability to create characters that represent the best of Black Houston!

Revisado: 06-02-24

I appreciate Attica Locke's talent for making the nation's fourth largest and most diverse ciry relevant!

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Attica Locke’s Genius

Revisado: 01-09-24

This superb novel deserves all the awards an praise it has received and more. It not only places racial politics within the context of history and contemporary life, but writer Attica Locke’s brilliant work reminds millennials and Generation Z youths that the social ills of today have a direct connection to the state of Texas and nation’s past. The award-winning writer’s appreciation for history, southern culture, Black rural life, and class makes this extraordinary story very relevant in the twenty-first century. A native Houstonian, the author’s love for her home state is also inspiring and confirms that despite the ongoing culture wars that divide Americans of the US today, those who have experienced disappointment after disappointment as well as the horrors of racial exclusion, for example, ironically never give up on their complicated ancestral ties and homes, even if these hometown places have failed to protect all its citizens from the stench of bias and exclusion. This, again is amazing and symbolizes God’s love for humanity.

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The Tulsa Massacre: A Mirror of Sorts

Revisado: 02-15-22

As a scholar of race, the Black experience, and the history of Texas, I found this amazing work to be authentic, riveting, and painful. I recommend this book to all United Stafes citizens, for it stands as a mirror and warning that racial healing is a must if the nation plans to remain a leading defender of democracy on the world stage. we must recognize the nation's true history and embrace the poignant need to understand the pain and joy in the USA, ironically a land of endless possibilities for some and a horrendous, generational terror for others. My acknowledgement of these facts does not mean a hatred for my country but rather a determination to see this beautiful place emerge as a beacon of greatness for all of its citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class. gender, religion, sexual orientation, and citizenship status.

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This brilliant work is groundbreaking!

Revisado: 11-22-21

This brilliant work is groundbreaking fiction. I have awaited a fiction series that draws on the important issues facing Black America while providing the stirring, stellar entertainment and mystery depth as Murder She Wrote. Hall's character makes us proud, as talented African-descent professionals grace our streets daily and dispel the erroneous, stereotypical myths that continue to haunt Blacks in the twenty-first century. Most importantly, the work shines a light the treatment of Black children by the community and national institutions designed to protect and defend all citizens. This new series has the potential to put into motion plans designed to dismantle the web of deceit and corruption that makes, again, African-descent children the victims of despicable crimes, both unethical acts and felonies. Thank you, Tamara Hall, for your amazing work.

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Masterful!

Revisado: 06-11-21

Thank you for bringing fo the forefront the source of pain--daily pain--for Black Americans. To live and work in a world that deems you inferior all the time is exhausting and grueling. This extraordinary work discusses this caste system in simple terms and provides us with an exit from this madness. It is, indeed, refreshing to read this study, one written by an African American who can openly relive her trauma as a perceived inferior caste.

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Gates echos many of my core instinctive beliefs.

Revisado: 05-29-21

Dr. Gates in this fascinating study echos many of my core beliefs as a Black intellectual while educating my mind and soul of the significance of the New Negro Movement and its legacy in global history. Thank you very much, Prof Gates, for all that youvdo for humanity.

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A Timely Masterpiece

Revisado: 04-23-21

At a time when race relations remain front and center in the the United States landscape, this practical, resourceful self-portait of the long Civil Rights Movement forces readers to take an honest look at their own views, attitudes, and cultural norms that permeate daily. Dr. Kendi wants his readers to address their own racial parameters and find ways to transform a weary world. we have the power to move the nation and world toward love, inclusivity, and equiry.

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Introducing Students to ER!

Revisado: 04-13-21

My students have been reading V.2 of this biographical series for several years. I have decided to assign the entire set as recommended required readings for my students' analytical book review assignment this fall (graduate student) Those that select the series will be immensely pleased. This volumes provides so much riveting detail about ER and her famous First Family. Anyone wanting to know about Eleanor Roksevelt and her historic legacy in national and international politics, as well as her ability to open doors for future generations of women politicians and diomacists, must read this volume. it is magical and enriching!

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