The Inner Me Anthea Sieveking and the "Afrocentric era" of

and the "Afrocentric era" of the 1980s through 1990s Austin shows how theories of race have shaped ideas about the meaning of "Blackness" within different time periods of the twentieth-century

From purity-motivated admonitions not to "make purple

layers and groups

age-based parameters

In the pages of this book

The Inner Me Anthea Sieveking and the "Afrocentric era" ofI have been writing poetry on and off for over forty years and this collection includes only a small portion of the poems I have written. Influences over the years have come from different sources such as people including my lovely loyal and very patient wife Zelma. Animals have also contributed in one way or another to what I write as have music nature and death morbid as it sounds. Poetry allows me to bare a portion of my heart and soul to you the