Redbone: A Novel Of Love, Betrayal, and Murder - Softcover

Dickerson, Sandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1534685340 ISBN 13: 9781534685345

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

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Redbone : A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Murder by Sandra Dickerson The female lead, Dr. Louise Brisbane has travelled a great distance from a Chicago gang infested neighborhood to the achievement of an Ivy League education. She ends up breaking two glass ceilings: first, that of becoming a top level executive at a Fortune 500 company, and second that of a Black woman hired to that position. Dr. Brisbane desires to “marry up” since she is the product of a working class family. Her father, John Paul Brisbane, owns a salvage company. Her mother is disabled and does not work. As the novel commences, Dr. Brisbane meets and soon becomes engaged to Attorney Hammond Oglesby, who hails from an old moneyed family that traces its roots from Black Walls Street. However, Redbone, a Lieutenant in the Chiefs, a South Side gang, functions like the marrow in Mary Louise’s bones. Sexual conflicts, complex love, betrayal, and murder provide an intriguing story. Redbone’s world of crime and drugs is threaded through the work. Additionally Hammond Oglesby’s world of old money is elaborated. Mary Louise walks in both worlds during the story. Micro aggression, and racism, as well as class oppression from Blacks thread through the story. The work contains vivid descriptions of sexual acts.

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Dr. Sandra Dickerson, Ed.D; PhD I was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I attended public schools Grades K-12. During my elementary school years, I attended segregated schools as neighborhoods were segregated. I graduated from UWM in May of 1974 with a B.S. in secondary English. That same year I moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, I joined the faculty of the Cambridge High and Latin School (then later renamed the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School) becoming the second person of color in the history of the school to be tenured in the English Department. I taught in Cambridge for 19 years. Some of my more notable students were Matt Damon the movie star and Patrick Ewing retired New York Knicks center. While in Cambridge I matriculated at Harvard University where I obtained a Master’s in education in 1981. In1990 I was awarded "Teacher of the Year" by the city of Cambridge. The Council of Learned Societies awarded me a fellowship in 1993 which was tenured at Harvard. After engaging a fruitful career on the east coast, I returned to Milwaukee assuming the position of Language Arts Curriculum Specialist for the Milwaukee Public Schools. In this post I directed English language arts instruction for 165 schools and approximately 3,500 teachers. I retired from MPS in 2005. I earned a PhD in English from UWM in 2011. I have taught at Simmons College and Wheelock College, both in Boston, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Marquette University. I devote my time now to the writing life and I am grateful to the Almighty that I can make such a statement. Soon to be released works include Girls Together: A Collection of Short Stories and Black Students Matter Too: An Examination of the Black/White Student Achievement Gap.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1534685340
• ISBN 13: 9781534685345
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338
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