A Political Education Life Arts Project

About the Book

A professional (well cited) introduction to local politics with the state, national and international connections made evident. The book endeavors to make political understanding accessible and digestible to those least interested or inclined to study it. Social and political empowerment is the benchmark, with a sense of humor and satire. Chapters are divided to present thoughts and feelings in different writing genre (essay, letters, diary, and poetry). The book champions experience over research and creativity or passivity. The emphasis is on progressive thought appropriate for communities of color. The book suggests that contrary thinking is productive in a capitalistic democracy.

About the Author

A writer of various genre, Dale Benjamin Drakeford most frequently facilitates political science seminars titled Politics in Black & Hispanic Communities and Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. His social science summer institute is titled Festivals As Cultural Expression, and his new social science seminar initiated in the spring of 2003 semester is Contemporary Urban Education. He has also facilitated adult seminars titled American Experience, Urban Community, and Experience, Learning & Identity at the School of New Resources at the College of New Rochelle. He is also a Related Services Provider with the NYC Board of Education, which under school reform and politically correct language decisions, is now being tagged, Related Service Professional. The author is also the compiler of the current poetry and prose anthology, Quilted From The Heart: Voices From Within.