Black People in the World

About the Book

This book is a collection of poems, short stories, and essays written by several students, of The Russell Life Skills and Reading Foundation, Inc, who are attempting to understand their “Being-in-the-world.” The poems, stories, and essays highlight the mission of the Foundation: empowering, inspiring, and encouraging at risk youth, through reading and writing, to become active (“conscious”) agents in the transformation of a socially constructed hierarchically discriminatory world.

About the Author

Paul C. Mocombe is the President/CEO of The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc. A social theorist interested in the application of social theory to contemporary issues such as race, class, and capitalism (globalization), he is the author of, A labor Approach to the Development of the Self or Modern Personality: The Case of Public Education, Education in Globalization, Mocombe’s Reading Room Series, and The Mocombeian Strategy: The Reason for, and Answer to Black Failure in Capitalist Education.