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Let's Talk About It de Desiree B Carpenter

Let's Talk About It

Autor Desiree B Carpenter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 dec 2023
More Than the Music: Tupac Shakur and the Art of Difficult Conversations More Than the Music transforms Tupac Shakur's lyrics into powerful, guided conversations about race, culture, and the issues we're often too afraid to name out loud. What if the bridge between our hardest conversations - about race, culture, and the issues that shape everyday life - was already in the music? Lets Talk About It is a bold, discussion-driven workbook that turns Tupac Shakur's lyrics into a launching pad for exactly the conversations most of us are afraid to start. Each chapter takes on a single Tupac song, breaking it down through guided discussion and thought-provoking questions. Every chapter opens and closes with quotes from an unexpected range of voices - Sun Tzu, St. Augustine, and Harriet Tubman alongside Jay-Z, Beyonce, KRS-One, and Barack Obama - daring readers to ask: Why did this person say this? Did it need to be said at all? What conditions could drive someone to speak something so profound? Built for professors, educators, public leaders, and community organizers - and honestly, anyone ready for real talk - this workbook creates a safe space for dialogue that's challenging, heartfelt, and inviting all at once. It gives facilitators a structured way to guide uncomfortable but necessary conversations, free from the fear of judgment or backlash. Using hip-hop's most iconic voice as the entry point, More Than the Music helps readers find common ground - and better understand where they genuinely differ - in a way no traditional curriculum can.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9798869046475
Pagini: 78
Dimensiuni: 216 x 280 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Desiree Carpenter

Notă biografică

Desiree was born in 1971 in New Jersey, a product of hip-hop's earliest era. Born just five months after Tupac, she has always loved hip-hop's genre and culture, and like Tupac, she considers herself a grateful fruit grown from the trees the civil rights movement planted. She grew up a huge fan of MC Lyte, KRS-One, and other groundbreaking artists of the time, came up in Essex County, and graduated from the Montclair school system before earning her degree at Delaware State College, an HBCU. She later became a CPA, married, divorced, and is the proud mother of a daughter and a son and 2 grandchildren.Desiree started reading Richard Wright as a teenager and moved on to the literature of the civil rights era soon after. She became captivated by the people at the center of that struggle for Black and brown equality in America -- women like Afeni Shakur, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown, and men like Fred Hampton, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and John Lewis. She believes these figures remain underappreciated today, and she wants to help keep their stories alive for generations who never learned them.In her own words, on this book and her connection to Tupac Shakur:"When Tupac was murdered, I grieved heavily, like every other Tupac fan. But I wasn't only grieving the rapper -- I was grieving the son of Afeni Shakur, a direct, hands-on product of my own freedom fighters. I grieved America's loss of his intellect. It took a long time, and I found myself pulled even deeper into his music because I needed that connection. I feared for his life while he was alive, so his death was especially hard to accept. I'll admit I was once an "alive theorist" myself, though I've long since let that go." - DesireeAs time passed, I grew disappointed and, honestly, angry with parts of the hip-hop community's leadership. I watched successful rappers and executives publicly honor Tupac and profess their love for him, while his own group, the Outlawz, struggled. I could never reconcile those two things. My heart always went out to our neighborhood friend, the late Bruce Washington -- known as Fatal, of the Outlawz -- along with Kadafi and the rest of that group, all genuinely talented local artists. I believe the industry could have done better by them. I don't know every part of that story, so I'll say plainly: this reflects how it felt to me, and I mean no offense to anyone involved."I wrote this as a scholarly tool and workbook, using his voice alongside my own, so that this kind of dialogue can keep growing Tupac's legacy in a way that makes his love for all of us worthwhile. This book contributes to his legacy through licensing and royalty share agreements. Tupac once said he might not change the world himself, but he might spark the mind of the person who does. Let's keep sparking minds, and keep building a legacy his elders and our future generations can be proud of -- people who live and walk in peace, and in love of our differences, instead of fear of them. With all my respect and love." - Desiree