Marick Press Poetry Prize
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Submissions to Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing • Pleiades prints poetry, fiction, essays, and book reviews.
• We welcome unsolicited submissions of poetry, fiction, and essays between August 15 and May 15 of each year. Submissions received during the summer will be held until the fall.
• To submit to Pleiades, send 4-5 poems, one short story, or one essay, to:
Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing
Department of English, Martin 336
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093.•Please address submissions to the proper editors. For poetry, send to Wayne Miller & Marc McKee; for fiction, send to Phong Nguyen & Matthew Eck; for nonfiction send to Phong Nguyen.
• Be sure to enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE).
• Poetry should be single-spaced. Prose should be double-spaced.
• Pleiades DOES accept simultaneous submissions, but we ask that you notify us immediately via email if a piece is accepted elsewhere.
• After receiving a response to your work, please wait at least six months before sending again.
• Those interested in submitting a book review should query Wayne Miller via email. No unsolicited book reviews will be accepted.
• We try to respond to all submissions in 1-4 months.
Submissions to the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Book Prize • The Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Book Competition is open to all American writers, regardless of previous publication. Translations are not accepted.
• Submit one copy of a complete poetry book manuscript of at least 48 pages. The manuscript must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2010. Send to:
Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize
Pleiades Press
Department of English, Martin 336
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093• With each manuscript, include two cover sheets: one with the title of the manuscript, your name, telephone number, and address; the other with only the title of the manuscript.
• Poems previously published in journals, chapbooks, or anthologies are acceptable. If poems in the manuscript have been previously published, enclose an acknowledgements page.
• With each entry, include a check or money order made out to Pleiades Press for $20. Reading fees will be used only for book production, advertising, and other costs of running the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series. Pleiades Press and the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series are non-profit organizations staffed by faculty members at University of Central Missouri and Winthrop University and volunteer readers.
• Each entry should be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE). If the entry arrives with an additional large, self-addressed envelope with $1.68 postage affixed, the entrant will receive a copy of the winning book when it appears.
• The initial screening will be directed by Susan Ludvigson, Wayne Miller, Marc McKee, Kevin Prufer, and Joy Katz. The initial screeners will choose ten or more finalist manuscripts, which will be forwarded to a well-known judge for selection of the winning collection. The judge for 2010-11 will be Alice Friman.
• No screener may previously know or have published any poet whose work (s)he considers for the contest. As such, no one who has published work in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing within the last five years will have his/her manuscript screened by any poetry editor of the journal. Manuscripts submitted by such contributors to the journal will, instead, be sent to screeners at another location. We respectfully request that former students or colleagues of the LMWT judge—as well as any poet whose relationship with the judge constitutes an unfair conflict of interest—refrain from entering the contest. All finalists will be asked to confirm that they have no conflict of interest with the judge. The LMWT staff reserves the right to disqualify entries deemed conflicts of interest and will return those entry fees.
• The final judge will not be sent the names of the finalists. Only their manuscripts, without identifying information, will be forwarded.
• The winning writer will receive $1000 and the winning collection will be published in paperback by Pleiades Press and distributed by Louisiana State University Press. In addition, the winning writer will be invited to read at the University of Central Missouri.
• Questions about the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series can be directed to Wayne Miller.
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Pudding House Chapbook Competition
Deadline: September 30 annually
10-36pp ms. Prefer around 24-28pp.
$15 entry fee payable to Pudding House.Send to
Pudding House Chapbook Competition
81 Shadymere Lane
Columbus Ohio 43213
(614) 986-1881$2000.00 First Place
divided between author ($1,000.00) &
a shelter program for the homeless ($1,000.00)
plus publication
20 free copies; deep discounts on optional additionals
Identify author/address on cover page. Some poems may be previously published but not the collection as a whole. Include credits for those poems and assure that you own copyright or have obtained permission to reprint. Pudding House does not buy permissions. Include About the Author statement with publications bio. B&W cover images optional; cover is always up to the publisher but we like to see author suggestions/input (not ideas, but the actual art) if you'd like. This will have no impact on competition results.We often publish additional manuscripts among those entered.
Judged by editor, Jennifer Bosveld, sometimes with editorial staff for finals.
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Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic By Ana Lucia Araujo
Description
This book examines the public memory of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery encompassing what is modern-day Brazil and the Republic of Benin––two countries connected for more than three centuries of Atlantic slave trade. Brazil imported more than 5 million enslaved Africans (the largest number in all the Americas) and was the latest to abolish slavery in 1888.
Over the last twenty years, Brazil and Benin witnessed the development of official and unofficial projects promoting the memory of slavery and cultural tourism, most of these supported by UNESCO. Official projects largely relied on the promotion of African arts, culture, and religions. Both the Brazilian and the Beninese governments encouraged the restoration and the conservation of historical sites, as well as the construction of new monuments, museums and memorials that would contribute to the reinvention of “Africa” in Brazil and of “Brazil” in Africa.
In Southern Benin, descendants of slaves and descendants of slave merchants––most of them seeking political prestige––appropriated the official discourses that insisted on the duty of memory. Although historically slave ancestry was associated with a sentiment of shame, some prosperous families of descendants of former slave returnees have become more candid and open about their heritage. These elites actively participated in the creation of monuments and memorials, and they also helped in the development of festivals and other commemoration activities to celebrate the Atlantic slave trade and African cultures.
In Brazil, the public memory of slavery is expressed through the fight of Afro-Brazilians to redress the past wrongs and the social inequalities of the present. At the same time, Afro-Brazilian cultural assertion movements are based on the reinvented and reconstructed links with Africa. However, until very recently, the public memory of slavery remained confined to very specific dates and places, such as the Carnival and the Afro-Brazilian religious festivals. Though some public monuments and commemoration activities related to the slave past were created in the last years, the absence of permanent public places in remembrance of slavery, however, indicates that Brazil’s slave past is still difficult to deal with.
If recent scholarship has focused on the memory of slavery in the United States, few works have dealt with the public memory of slavery from a transnational perspective. When examining the role of the African Diaspora in the reconstructions of the slave past, most authors have limited their analysis to the African American community and have overlooked the importance of the South Atlantic region, in which Africa and South America play a crucial role.
In this book, Ana Lucia Araujo argues that despite the rupture provoked by the Atlantic slave trade, the Atlantic Ocean was never a physical barrier that prevented the exchanges between the two sides; it was instead a corridor that allowed the production of continuous relations. Araujo shows that the memorialization of slavery in Brazil and Benin was not only the result of survivals from the period of the Atlantic slave trade but also the outcome of a transnational movement that was accompanied by the continuous intervention of institutions and individuals who promoted the relations between Brazil and Benin. Araujo insists that the circulation of images was, and still is, crucial to the development of reciprocal cultural, religious, and economic exchanges and to defining what is African in Brazil and what is Brazilian in Africa. In this context, the South Atlantic is conceived as a large zone in which the populations of African descent undertake exchanges and modulate identities, a zone where the European and the Amerindian identities were also appropriated in order to build its own nature.
This book shows that the public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the South Atlantic is plural; it is conveyed not only by the descendants of the victims but also by the descendants of perpetrators. Although the slave past is a critical issue in societies that largely relied on slave labor and where the heritage of slavery is still present, the memories of this past remain very often restricted to the private space. This book shows how in Brazil and Benin social actors appropriated the slave past to build new identities, fight against social injustice, and in some cases obtain political prestige. The book illuminates how the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Benin contributes to the rise of the South Atlantic as an autonomous zone of claim for recognition for those peoples and cultures that were cruelly broken, dispersed, and depreciated by the Atlantic slave trade.
Public Memory of Slavery is an important book for collections in slavery studies, memory studies, Brazilian and Latin American studies, ethnic studies, cultural anthropology, African studies and African Diaspora.
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A Writer’s Struggles, on and Off the Page
By FELICIA R. LEE
Published: September 17, 2010
Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times
Ntozake Shange, far left, and her sister Ifa Bayeza have written a novel, "Some Sing, Some Cry."
Her feminist war cry of a play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” is Ntozake Shange’s signature work, produced on Broadway in 1976 when she was in her 20s. Now 61, her speech and movements slowed by a series of minor strokes but her intensity undimmed, Ms. Shange is having another moment, or two, this fall.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Thandie Newton, left, and Whoopi Goldberg star in the coming film adaptation of “For Colored Girls,” directed by Tyler Perry.Out this week is her new novel, “Some Sing, Some Cry,” a nearly 600-page family saga written with her sister Ifa Bayeza. In early November, the long-awaited film adaptation of “For Colored Girls,” will bring that influential work to a new generation courtesy of a most unlikely director, the comedy and melodrama impresario Tyler Perry.
Quantrell Colbert/LionsgateThandie Newton, left, and Whoopi Goldberg star in the coming film adaptation of "For Colored Girls," directed by Tyler Perry.
The film and the book each took winding paths to completion. Ms. Shange and Ms. Bayeza, 59, worked for 15 years on the complex task of jointly writing a novel that features seven generations of an African-American family sustained by one another and by music. After years of keeping in touch about the book mostly through e-mails and phone calls, they came together recently for a joint interview in the downtown Manhattan office of their publisher, St. Martin’s Press. Ms. Bayeza, a playwright, flew in from Chicago; Ms. Shange (her name is pronounced en-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHN-gay) took a car service from her home in Brooklyn.
Calling each other “Zake” and “Fa” and taking turns to remember bits of family lore, the sisters also talked about how they divided the writing, often by historical eras. “Some Sing, Some Cry” moves through Reconstruction, two World Wars, the Great Migration, and the civil rights movement. Along the way the descendants of Betty Mayfield create or are inspired by jazz, blues, spirituals, rhythm and blues and other forms of music. The book concludes in contemporary times with Tokyo Walker, a famous R&B singer who embarks on a tour of Africa.
Ms. Bayeza looked concerned during the interview when Ms. Shange seemed to become fatigued and shifted to be more comfortable. Ms. Shange was content to let her sister do most of the talking — “It’s her first novel,” she said later — though she made it clear that she felt the book fills a need: “I don’t see any complicated, thought-provoking depictions of black people in a multilayered way. That’s why I was willing to work on this for so long.”
Ms. Shange remained mum on who did what in the collaboration. She noted, though, that “each of our chapters has its own dialect, its own spelling and pronunciation of the characters’ names and also their perceptions of their skin colors.” Those variations reflect the fluidity of African-American language through the years, she said, and the power of perception.
Ms. Bayeza, who admitted that Ms. Shange wrote the opening pages and that she handled the sections having to do with war, said, “It becomes this kind of puzzle game for people to figure out where the voice shifts.” But they also did plenty of weaving, she added. Kaiama L. Glover, writing in a forthcoming review in The New York Times Book Review said the experiment largely worked, resulting in a “story of lifesaving music and heartbroken maternity” that is “engaging from start to finish.”
“Some Sing” is the first novel by Ms. Shange, who is also a prolific poet and playwright, since 1994’s “Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter,” about a young black artist’s struggle with racism and maternal abandonment. It gives readers “another family to turn to when things look bleak,” Ms. Shange said.
Bleak is how her own situation looked beginning in 2004. She began to have trouble with her balance and her speech and eventually received a diagnosis of having had a series of minor strokes. At her worst, she was unable to talk, read or write. Her speech is now audible but slowed, and her balance and dexterity are impaired.
Deciding to work with her sister had its genesis long before the stroke. In the 1970s a television and film producer approached Ms. Shange with the idea of a mini-series that would trace the history of black music through the role of women. Ms. Shange turned to Ms. Bayeza, whose stage works addressing black history include “Amistad Voices,” “Club Harlem,” and “The Ballad of Emmett Till.”
The two quickly sketched an outline for the arc of the story but shelved it for many years as life and other projects intervened. In the mid-’90s, they renewed the writing at the urging of Ms. Shange’s long-time editor at St. Martin’s, Michael Denneny.
“We grew up with stories like these,” Ms. Bayeza said of the novel’s tales. The sisters were raised in St. Louis and in Lawrence Township, N.J., the oldest of four children of a surgeon, Paul T. Williams, and Eloise O. Williams, a social worker and educator who also had a fondness for the arts. As young adults they jettisoned their given names for African ones.
While their parents are now deceased, the sisters can trace their father’s family line to 1757 with the arrival of two African brothers in the slave-holding territory of New Jersey. Their mother’s side was researched back to 1800 and Filis, an enslaved woman who traveled with her owners to South Carolina.
The story of how Betty Mayfield, a former slave travels to blackmail her white former owners, comes from real-life family lore, according to the sisters. Another character, Raymond Minor, reflects the life of their grandfather, a builder who passed for “black Irish” to get into the carpenter’s union in New York.
Both sisters are single now. Ms. Shange has an adult daughter and Ms. Bayeza does not have children. Their relationship is “symbiotic,” Ms. Bayeza said, close enough that they trusted each other to write without interference from the other. Ms. Bayeza confessed that some sections were hard to write; Ms. Shange said she went with the flow.
With a hefty first printing of 100,000, a national book tour and its selection as Essence magazine’s September book club pick, “Some Sing” might bring Ms. Shange her biggest splash since “For Colored Girls.”
A series of poetic monologues (Ms. Shange called it a “choreopoem”) about domestic abuse, abortion and self-love, among other topics, “For Colored Girls” is still steadily performed on college campuses, and is widely seen as influencing a generation of spoken-word poets, playwrights and performance artists.
Ms. Shange managed “to combine femininity and feminism” and wrap it in a downtown artistic sensibility, said Lynn Nottage, a playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for “Ruined.” She described Ms. Shange as “the first African-American female playwright I saw welcomed into the mainstream.”
For years, filmmakers talked about a movie version, but it came about courtesy of Mr. Perry, the writer and director of a successful string of films (and television series) about African-American life that some observers have criticized as clichéd and racially stereotypical. Much of his work has featured Mr. Perry in drag as the saucy matriarch Madea. Ms. Shange said she explicitly told Mr. Perry that Madea could not be in “Colored Girls.”
The film is scheduled to open in theaters on Nov. 5 with a starry ensemble cast that includes Phylicia Rashad, Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, and Thandie Newton. And no Madea.
“I think it’s very good,” was Ms. Shange’s unhesitant verdict on Mr. Perry’s adaptation. “He kept a lot of my language, that’s what I liked most.”
But that assessment came during a later telephone interview. With Ms. Bayeza that day, Ms. Shange only wanted to talk about “Some Sing” and her hope that the book captures the sweetness and pain of black family life in a language that welcomes readers.
“Mommy and Daddy told us these stories that were less like literature than somebody talking to you,” Ms. Shange said. “I think we achieved that, too.”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 2010
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009
Summary of Key Findings
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income in the United States in 2009 was $49,777, not statistically different from the 2008 median.
The nation's official poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent in 2008 — the second statistically significant annual increase in the poverty rate since 2004. There were 43.6 million people in poverty in 2009, up from 39.8 million in 2008 — the third consecutive annual increase.
Meanwhile, the number of people without health insurance coverage rose from 46.3 million in 2008 to 50.7 million in 2009, while the percentage increased from 15.4 percent to 16.7 percent over the same period.
These findings are contained in the report Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009. The following results for the nation were compiled from information collected in the 2010 Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC):
Income
Race and Hispanic Origin (Race data refer to people reporting a single race only. Hispanics can be of any race.)
- Among race groups, Asian households had the highest median income in 2009. Real median income declined between 2008 and 2009 for non-Hispanic white and black households, while the changes for Asian and Hispanic-origin households were not statistically different. (See Table A [PDF].)
Regions
- In 2009, households in the West and Northeast had the highest median household incomes. (The apparent difference between the two regions was not statistically significant.) Real median income declined between 2008 and 2009 in the Midwest and West; the changes for the Northeast and South were not statistically significant. (See Table A [PDF].)
Nativity
- In 2009, households maintained by naturalized citizens had the highest median income. Native-born households and those maintained by noncitizens experienced income declines from 2008 to 2009, in real terms. The changes in the median income of all foreign-born households and households maintained by a naturalized citizen were not statistically significant. (See Table A [PDF].)
Earnings
- In 2009, the earnings of women who worked full time, year-round were 77 percent of that for corresponding men, not statistically different from the 2008 ratio.
- The real median earnings of men who worked full time, year-round rose by 2.0 percent between 2008 and 2009, from $46,191 to $47,127. For women, the corresponding increase was 1.9 percent, from $35,609 to $36,278. (The difference between the 2.0 and 1.9 percent increases was not statistically significant.)
Income Inequality
- The change in income inequality between 2008 and 2009 was not statistically significant, as measured by shares of aggregate household income by quintiles and the Gini index. The Gini index was 0.468 in 2009. (The Gini index is a measure of household income inequality; 0 represents perfect income equality and 1 perfect inequality.)
Poverty
- The poverty rate in 2009 was the highest since 1994, but was 8.1 percentage points lower than the poverty rate in 1959, the first year for which poverty estimates are available. The number of people in poverty in 2009 is the largest number in the 51 years for which poverty estimates are available.
- In 2009, the family poverty rate and the number of families in poverty were 11.1 percent and 8.8 million, respectively, up from 10.3 percent and 8.1 million in 2008.
- The poverty rate and the number in poverty increased across all types of families: married-couple families (5.8 percent and 3.4 million in 2009 from 5.5 percent and 3.3 million in 2008); female-householder-with-no-husband-present families (29.9 percent and 4.4 million in 2009 from 28.7 percent and 4.2 million in 2008) and for male-householder-no-wife-present families (16.9 percent and 942,000 in 2009 from 13.8 percent and 723,000 in 2008).
Thresholds
- As defined by the Office of Management and Budget and updated for inflation using the Consumer Price Index, the weighted average poverty threshold for a family of four in 2009 was $21,954. Since the average annual CPI-U for 2009 was lower than the average annual CPI-U for 2008, poverty thresholds for 2009 are slightly lower than the corresponding thresholds for 2008. (See <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032010/pov/new35_000.htm> for the complete set of dollar value thresholds that vary by family size and composition.)
Race and Hispanic Origin (Race data refer to people reporting a single race only. Hispanics can be of any race.)
- The poverty rate for non-Hispanic whites was lower in 2009 than it was for other racial groups. The poverty rate is not statistically different from the 2008 poverty rate for Asians, but increased for all other race groups and for Hispanics.
Table B [PDF] details 2009 poverty rates and numbers in poverty, as well as changes since 2008 in these measures, for race groups and Hispanics.Age
- The poverty rate increased for children younger than 18 (from 19.0 percent in 2008 to 20.7 percent in 2009) and people 18 to 64 (from 11.7 percent in 2008 to 12.9 percent in 2009), while it declined for people 65 and older (from 9.7 percent in 2008 to 8.9 percent in 2009).
- Similar to the patterns observed for the poverty rate in 2009, the number of people in poverty increased for children younger than 18 (14.1 million in 2008 to 15.5 million in 2009) and people 18 to 64 (22.1 million in 2008 to 24.7 million in 2009) and declined for seniors 65 and older (from 3.7 million in 2008 to 3.4 million in 2009).
Nativity
- The 2009 poverty rate for naturalized citizens was not statistically different from 2008, while the poverty rates of native-born and noncitizens increased. Table B [PDF] details 2009 poverty rates and the numbers in poverty, as well as changes since 2008 in these measures, by nativity.
Regions
- The poverty rate increased from 2008 to 2009 in the Midwest, South and West while all four regions had increases in the number of people in poverty. (The 2009 poverty rate for the Northeast was not statistically different from its 2008 poverty rate.) (See Table B [PDF].)
Health Insurance Coverage
- The number of people with health insurance decreased from 255.1 million in 2008 to 253.6 million in 2009. Since 1987, the first year that comparable health insurance data were collected, this is the first year that the number of people with health insurance has decreased.
- Between 2008 and 2009, the number of people covered by private health insurance decreased from 201.0 million to 194.5 million, while the number covered by government health insurance climbed from 87.4 million to 93.2 million. The number covered by employment-based health insurance declined from 176.3 million to 169.7 million. The number with Medicaid coverage increased from 42.6 million to 47.8 million.
- Comparable health insurance data were first collected in 1987. The percentage of people covered by private insurance (63.9 percent) is the lowest since that year, as is the percentage of people covered by employment-based insurance (55.8 percent). In contrast, the percentage of people covered by government health insurance programs (30.6 percent) is the highest since 1987, as is the percentage covered by Medicaid (15.7 percent).
- In 2009, 10.0 percent (7.5 million) of children under 18 were without health insurance. Neither estimate is significantly different from the corresponding 2008 estimate.
- The uninsured rate for children in poverty (15.1 percent) was greater than the rate for all children.
- In 2009, the uninsured rates decreased as household income increased: from 26.6 percent for those in households with annual incomes less than $25,000 to 9.1 percent in households with incomes of $75,000 or more.
Race and Hispanic Origin (Race data refer to those reporting a single race only. Hispanics can be of any race.)
- The uninsured rate and number of uninsured in 2009 were not statistically different from 2008 for Asians while increasing for all other race groups and for Hispanics. (See Table C [PDF].)
Nativity
- The proportion of the foreign-born population without health insurance in 2009 was nearly two-and-a-half times that of the native-born population. The uninsured rate was not statistically different for naturalized citizens but rose for noncitizens and the native-born. Table C [PDF] details the 2009 uninsured rate and the number of uninsured, as well as changes since 2008 in these measures, by nativity.
Regions
- The Northeast had the lowest uninsured rate in 2009. Between 2008 and 2009, the uninsured rates and number of uninsured increased in all four regions. (See Table C [PDF].)
The Census Bureau's statistical experts, with assistance from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget, the Economics and Statistics Administration and other appropriate agencies and outside experts, are now developing a Supplemental Poverty Measure. The Supplemental Poverty Measure will provide an additional measure of economic well-being. It will not replace the official poverty measure and will not be used to determine eligibility for government programs. See Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009, for more information.
The Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement is subject to sampling and nonsampling errors. All comparisons made in the report have been tested and found to be statistically significant at the 90 percent confidence level, unless otherwise noted.
For additional information on the source of the data and accuracy of the estimates for the CPS, visit <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/p60_238.pdf>.
Table A. Median Household Income
2008 2009 Percent change in (in 2009 dollars) real median income Region U.S. $50,112 $49,777 -0.7 Northeast $54,140 $53,073 -2.0 Midwest $49,922 $48,877 *-2.1 South $45,417 $45,615 0.4 West $54,876 $53,833 *-1.9 Race and Hispanic Origin of Householder White $52,113 $51,861 -0.5 White, not Hispanic $55,319 $54,461 *-1.6 Black $34,088 $32,584 *-4.4 Asian $65,388 $65,469 0.1 Hispanic origin (any race) $37,769 $38,039 0.7 Nativity of Householder Native born $50,862 $50,503 *-0.7 Foreign born $43,328 $43,923 1.4 Naturalized citizen $51,328 $51,975 1.3 Not a citizen $37,807 $36,089 *-4.5 *Change statistically significant at the 90 percent confidence level.
Table B. People in Poverty
(Numbers in thousands)2008 2009 Change in poverty Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Region U.S. 39,829 13.2 43,569 14.3 *3,740 *1.1 Northeast 6,295 11.6 6,650 12.2 *355 0.6 Midwest 8,120 12.4 8,768 13.3 *648 *0.9 South 15,862 14.3 17,609 15.7 *1,747 *1.4 West 9,552 13.5 10,542 14.8 *990 *1.3 Race and Hispanic Origin White 26,990 11.2 29,830 12.3 *2,841 *1.1 White, not Hispanic 17,024 8.6 18,530 9.4 *1,506 *0.8 Black 9,379 24.7 9,944 25.8 *565 *1.1 Asian 1,576 11.8 1,746 12.5 *169 0.6 Hispanic origin 10,987 23.2 12,350 25.3 *1,363 *2.1 Nativity Native born 33,293 12.6 36,407 13.7 *3,114 *1.1 Foreign born 6,536 17.8 7,162 19.0 *626 *1.3 Naturalized citizen 1,577 10.2 1,736 10.8 160 0.6 Not a citizen 4,959 23.3 5,425 25.1 *466 *1.8 *Statistically different from zero at the 90 percent confidence level. Table B. People in Poverty
(Numbers in thousands) 2008 2009 Change in poverty Number Percent Number Percent Number PercentRegion
U.S. 39,829 13.2 43,569 14.3 *3,740 *1.1 Northeast 6,295 11.6 6,650 12.2 *355 0.6 Midwest 8,120 12.4 8,768 13.3 *648 *0.9 South 15,862 14.3 17,609 15.7 *1,747 *1.4 West 9,552 13.5 10,542 14.8 *990 *1.3 Race and Hispanic Origin White 26,990 11.2 29,830 12.3 *2,841 *1.1 White, not Hispanic 17,024 8.6 18,530 9.4 *1,506 *0.8 Black 9,379 24.7 9,944 25.8 *565 *1.1 Asian 1,576 11.8 1,746 12.5 *169 0.6 Hispanic origin 10,987 23.2 12,350 25.3 *1,363 *2.1 Nativity Native born 33,293 12.6 36,407 13.7 *3,114 *1.1 Foreign born 6,536 17.8 7,162 19.0 *626 *1.3 Naturalized citizen 1,577 10.2 1,736 10.8 160 0.6 Not a citizen 4,959 23.3 5,425 25.1 *466 *1.8 *Statistically different from zero at the 90 percent confidence level.
Table C. People Without Health Insurance Coverage
(Numbers in thousands)2008 2009 Change Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Region U.S. 46,340 15.4 50,674 16.7 *4,335 *1.3 Northeast 6,277 11.6 6,789 12.4 *512 *0.8 Midwest 7,588 11.6 8,770 13.3 *1,181 *1.7 South 20,154 18.2 22,105 19.7 *1,951 *1.5 West 12,321 17.4 13,011 18.3 *690 *0.9 Race and Hispanic Origin White 34,890 14.5 38,399 15.8 *3,509 *1.4 White, not Hispanic 21,322 10.8 23,658 12.0 *2,336 *1.2 Black 7,284 19.1 8,102 21.0 *818 *1.8 Asian 2,344 17.6 2,409 17.2 65 -0.4 Hispanic origin 14,558 30.7 15,820 32.4 *1,263 *1.7 Nativity Native 34,036 12.9 37,694 14.1 *3,658 *1.3 Foreign born 12,304 33.5 12,980 34.5 *677 *1.0 Naturalized citizen 2,792 18.0 3,044 19.0 *252 1.0 Not a citizen 9,511 44.7 9,936 46.0 *425 *1.3 *Change statistically significant at the 90 percent confidence level. via census.gov
Yelli - Baka women yodellers
Recording the Baka women from Gbiné singing their traditional "Yelli" songs.
Hear more yelli at http://www.baka.co.uk/press/albums/fo... Profits from this CD will go back to the Baka women through Global Music Exchange.
More information at http://www.1heart.org
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