Author: Michael Boezi

The Cultural Legacy of Slavery: A Reflection on African American Identity and Family Heritage

In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Deirdre Foreman, author of My Cultural Legacy: Slave Culture and the American South, they explore the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through an ethnoautobiographical reflection of Deirdre’s own African American identity and family heritage. 

The Risks and Rewards of African Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Africa’s Challenging Landscape

This free seminar features LPP author Ike Onyema Obi, a Nigerian entrepreneur whose path to business success reflects the challenges many emergent entrepreneurs face. He has mastered being resilient and agile in an African context – taking risks and seizing opportunities, filling knowledge voids by learning persistently, and shaping his networks to help grow his businesses.  

Two young kids playing; walking along a short stone wall.

Family Advocacy: Zero-Sum Parenting and Educational Equity

Family advocacy varies widely in relation to a family’s social identity and, as educators, we need to walk into the world of family advocacy directly and deliberately. Certain types of “unproductive” advocacy can pull resources and attention away from other forms of meaningful family advocacy.

A Tale of Two Generations: Parallel and Divergent Paths of a Family of Ethiopian Immigrant Entrepreneur

In this conversation between Drew Harris, The Emergent Entrepreneur Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Yoni Medhin, author of An Ethiopian Family’s Journey of Entrepreneurship in the US: A Story of Determination, Resourcefulness, and Faith, they discuss how Yoni’s entrepreneurial journey as a second generation immigrant was shaped by, but different from, his parents’ entrepreneurial journey as first generation immigrants.

Mixed Race, Mixed Messages: The Growing Identity Crisis of Multiracial Americans in an Increasingly Racially Divided Country

In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and and Steve Majors, author of A Multiracial Experience: One Man’s Search for Race, Identity and Family, they discuss how the growing number of Americans who identify as multiracial are navigating their experiences of living in a society that is increasingly fractured along persistent, rigid racial lines. 

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