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”tor’cha is the riveting account of the spiritual odyssey of urban youth. The powerful journey draws the reader into complex relationships of love, hate and compromise. In the process of shaping his characters, Craig raises pivotal questions concerning the silent war that rages in inner cities across the nation. Read this book and ponder the answers that can lead us to hope.” — Dr. Bessie W. Blake, Author of “Speak to the Mountain” (USA Book News 2007 Best Book Award), "God's Bad Boy", and "Love Lifted Me".
“Todd Craig's writing can hold more weight than the mighty 59th St. Bridge during rush hour. He is a combo of Zora Neale Hurston and Bonz Malone. A classic New York slice of pizza, hold the swine . . .” — Bobbito Garcia, DJ and Author "Where'd You Get Those? New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987" and "AIM HIGH, LITTLE GIANT, AIM HIGH!"
“Todd Craig takes readers deep into the darkness in order to show us the light. Written in a street-smart style, this book should be required reading...” — Geoffrey Canada, Board President of Harlem Children’s Zone and Author "Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence"
Original soundtrack & mixtapes includes the likes of Mobb Deep, Big Twin Gambino, Big Noyd, Rich Medina, Godfather, Chinky, Kice, Mental Case, Stamma Ramma, Dinny Bananaz, Prophecy, Davinci, Un Pacino, and others!
Todd Craig is associate professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), where he teaches in the African American Studies Department at New York City College of Technology and in the English Department at the Graduate Center. A writer, educator, and DJ whose career meshes his love of writing, teaching, and music, he is the author of the multimodal novel tor’cha. Dr Craig's work has been published in Staten Island Noir, Across Cultures, Fiction International,Radical Teacher, Modern Language Studies, Changing English, Kairos, Composition Studies, and Sounding Out!
Dr. Craig's latest book examines the Hip Hop DJ as a twenty-first century new media reader and writer and investigates the modes and practices of the DJ as creating the discursive elements of DJ rhetoric and literacy.
Pauulu’s Diaspora is a sweeping story of Black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told through the life and work of twentieth-century environmental activist Pauulu Kamarakafego.
Pauulu's Diaspora was awarded the African American Intellectual History Association's (AAIHS) 2021 Pauli Murray Book Prize and a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2021 Fellowship Book Award Prize, was a finalist for the 2021 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize and received Honorable Mention for the 2021 Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation Book Award and was a Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020.
About the Author:
Hailing from the island of Bermuda, Professor Quito Swan is an award-winning historian of Black internationalism, Black Power, and the Black Pacific and a scholar of race, public policy, and the African Diaspora. Quito J. Swan is Professor of History and Africana Studies at George Washington University, and Director of its Africana Studies Program.
Dr. Swan is the author of three monographs, Black Power in Bermuda (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida, 2020), and the forthcoming Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anticolonialism, and the African World (New York University Press, 2022). Swan's next book projects include Black El Dorado: Bermuda and the Black Radical Diaspora (under contract with University Press of Illinois) and Born As A Sufferah: The Insurgent Soundscapes of Dancehall Music, which explores Black internationalism at the turn of the twenty first century through the soundscapes of Reggae, Dancehall and Sound System cultures.
Love, Rebooted
When a sexy stranger walks in on a reclusive tech CEO playing dress-up in a lingerie store, one thing is certain. No way can he find out who she really is! She falls for him but soon learns the hunky hotshot attorney’s job depends on hiring her. Can she keep her love, and her secret?
C. Rose Dahl
An American storyteller, raised in Ypsilanti, Michigan; Dahl has always enjoyed writing and fell in love with romance novels at an early age when her mother gifted her Beverly Jenkins’s third book, Indigo. She was just fifteen years old. Dahl's experiences living in Philadelphia, where she worked as a high school Spanish teacher, inspired her to write her debut novel, Love, Rebooted.
The First 100 Copies are Signed
This playlist was inspired by the novel, Love, Rebooted. Listen while you read
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