Life Sentences: Freeing Black Relationships

Life Sentences: Freeing Black Relationships is a Black man's response to the devastating effect of the Euro-Western concept of love on Black relationships. Author Mzee Lasana Okpara (formerly Fred Hord) demonstrates keen insight and confronts complex contemporary and historical issues which thwart efforts towards genuine bonding between the Black man and woman. Okpara's voice is intimate, challenging, and resolute.

Author: Mzee Lasana Okpara, Fred L. Hord
Publisher: Third World Press
Published: 10/01/1993
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.50w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9780883781463
About the Author
Fred Hord Life Sentences Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara), full professor and Director of Africana Studies at Knox College, is Founder, past President and current Executive Director of the national Association for Black Culture Centers. He is the author of three previous volumes of poetry, Reconstructing Memory: Black Literary Criticism, and editor of Black Culture Centers: Politics of Survival and Identity. Hord also co-edited a college text on Africana philosophy with Jonathan Scott Lee entitled I Am Because We Are.