NEW BOOK!!!
THORNS
Black Spousal Abuse
READ ABOUT THORNS THAT TELLS SUREFIRE PREVENTIONS AND SOLUTIONS TO VERBAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PHYSICAL ABUSE IN ADULT DATING AND MARRIAGE RELATIONS
DESCRIPTION OF BOOK
The thread that runs through Thorns is that horrendous spousal abuse and scintillating good sex are intertwined in thirteen black marriages that span the inner city to corporate America.
Each of the thirteen black women describes the multiple types of spousal abuse she experiences in her marriage, why she accepts the scourge, and ways the marriage ends or stays intact; further, the editor gives helpful advice for avoiding dating and marriage abuse, Ann Landers style, based on their spousal abuse experiences.
The first benefit of this book is to illustrate for black women--teenagers, young adults, and adults--the exact signs of abusive young and older black men and, therefore, present the keys to avoiding abusive dates, potential marriage partners, and spouses. The second benefit is to help women live free from dating, partner, and spousal abuse. Finally, the book tells surefire ways to end abusive behavior in black men, which will make more of them treat black women better. As a result, black women’s social relations and economic productivity will improve from inner city to corporate America.
Discover in Thorns the Keys to Avoiding Dating and Spousal or Domestic abuse
Ask Annie S. Barnes how to:
Identify potential spousal abusers
Determine what black women should do to avoid abusive dates and spouses
Understand that when a man has an abusive father, the man is likely to be an abuser
Understand that when fathers do not teach their sons how to love, by example, the men do not learn to love
Understand that spousal abuse occurs on all social class levels
Realize the ineffectiveness of police officers on domestic abuse scenes
Recognize the adverse effects of spousal abuse on children
Understand how to rescue children from abusive families and retrain them
Recognize that satisfying sex and harsh abuse often go hand in hand
Remain in abusive verbal and emotional marriages unscathed
Help women get sweet black emotional love from their men through truthful complaints-never substitutes
Help women understand that they cannot remake their husband, keep him, and end his abuse
Know when to end spousal abuse
Practice surefire solutions to the problems of abuse in dating and marriage
This book is intended as a jewel for individuals, families, and dating and married couples from inner city to corporate America
HOW TO OBTAIN SINGLE COPIES AND BULK ORDERS OF THORNS
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ANNIE S. BARNES IS AVAILABLE FOR:
Radio Interviews
Television Interviews
Book Signings
and
Beneficial Lectures for boys, girls, women, and men, group meetings, and national spousal abuse, corporate, church, and political meetings
LECTURE TOPIC: PREVENTIONS AND SOLUTIONS TO VIOLENT ABUSE IN CHILDREN’S PLAY AND YOUNG AND OLDER ADULTS’ DATING AND MARRIAGE RELATIONS
Annie S. Barnes’s Contact Information:
Telephone: (757) 461-8741
Email: anniesbarnes@aol.com
Fax: (757) 461-2721
Biography
Born and raised in south central Alabama, Dr. Annie Barnes graduated from T. S. Cooper High School in Sunbury, North Carolina, received her college degree with a major in Sociology and minor in United States History from Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina and master’s degree in Sociology from Atlanta University in Georgia, January, 1955. Barnes attended two summer school sessions at New York University in New York City to better teach United States Government to gifted and talented students at Huntington High School in Newport News, Virginia, where she taught eleven years, 1954-1965.
From 1965 to 1968, Dr. Barnes taught anthropology and sociology at Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia. While teaching at Hampton Institute, the author earned ten semester hours of credit in race, social, physical, and genetics anthropology in the summer National Science Foundation Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 1968, to better teach her students Introduction to Anthropology.
In 1968, the Author enrolled in University of Virginia (UVA), Charlottesville, and earned Ph.D., after fulfilling requirements, including doing social anthropology fieldwork in Atlanta, Georgia, and writing her dissertation, The Black Family in Golden Towers (low-income, middle class, and millionaire families) in social anthropology, from University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1971. In 2008, ten graduate students at Georgia State University, Atlanta, in Historic Preservation course, studied and used her book, The Black Middle Class Family, 1985, for documentation, to make application for the geographical area, Collier Heights, the Atlanta area that she researched, to be placed in the Georgia Historical Department and on the National Historical Preservation Register: the furnishing inventories of the era, 1969 to 1970, when the Author conducted research in Collier Heights, since, she is told, most of the original residents of that era are no longer there, are insightful about house interiors. She humbly acknowledges that her books have long book-shelf-life because they are based on empirical and library information, and are highly accurate, and useful. All seven of Dr. Barnes’s books are still selling, one excepted, and, her twenty-refereed articles, six chapters in colleagues books, and five abstracts are still viable. Fortunately, after Barnes completed all requirements, including studying Collier Heights, she earned some “firsts.” She was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology at University of Virginia, the first African American female to earn a Ph.D. at University of Virginia, and the second African American female to each a Ph.D. at University of Virginia.
Then, she taught anthropology and sociology at Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, September l971 to July l997, where she was hired as eminent anthropology scholar in Norfolk State University Sociology Department. Barnes was selected Best Teacher at Norfolk State University twice, and her anthropology classes and elective courses were filled with students. Many students not enrolled in her courses kept up with her lecture topics on her syllabus and either requested permission to sit in crowded classrooms for lecture or when she left classroom, she saw students sitting on floor outside classroom door. When Barnes asked why, the students told her that they had come to hear her lecture.
Barnes was one of Virginia State Council of Higher Education’s thirteen Best Teachers of the year in Virginia, 1988. The Virginia Council of Higher Education selected Dr. Barnes to speak on behalf of herself and the other twelve 1988 Best Virginia teacher colleagues at the corporate banquet honoring the recipients.
Annie Barnes has read thirteen professional papers at sessions and in symposia at the American Anthropology Association (AAA) annual meetings, and was AAA’s Invited Chair for one session. In the American Anthropology Association (AAA) structure, Dr. Barnes served as the president of Association of Black Anthropologists, Chair of Blacks in Education Committee, twice, member of National Council of Anthropology and Education Board, chaired by professors George and Louise Spindler of the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Barnes was appointed a member of the Organizing Committee of General Anthropology Division (GAD) of AAA; therefore, she was one of GAD organizers, and she served on its first board as member at large. In addition, AAA appointed Barnes to the external and administrative advisory committees.
As a member of the Southern Anthropology Society, Barnes read several papers at professional meetings including her first anthropology paper, “Illegitimacy in Black Families,” read at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia, April 19, 1973. Members of the Southern Anthropology Society invited Barnes to speak on their radio program about a paper that she would read at annual meeting and aired it on twenty-six other radio stations. All papers that Barnes presented at the Southern Anthropology Society meetings gave her professional enrichment, especially two papers, “Single Mothers in Black Colleges” and “African American Teen Pregnancy in the American South.” The Southern Anthropology published them with other symposia papers in two separate volumes: Women in the South: An Anthropological Perspective, edited by Professor Holly Matthews, East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina; African Americans in the South, edited by Hans A. Baer, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and Yvonne Jones, University of Kentucky, Louisville.
Dr. Barnes was elected first African American woman president of the then fifty-seven-year-old Virginia Social Science Association, served on its Board many years, and held every position in the Virginia Social Science Association and published an article, “Black Single Fathers: Continuity, Neutrality, and Change in the Virginia Social Science Journal, 1990.
The Author has conducted empirical research in Osudoku Tribal Society in Osuwem, Ghana, West Africa, the American South, Fort Leavenworth Federal Military Prison, Kansas, and across America. Family studies, romance, and violence are the major themes in her writings.
The Author has in-depth media experience: she appeared on Tony Brown National Television Journal twice; appeared in JET Magazine twice; and promoted her book, Everyday Racism, electronically, from her home 200 times with recalls. In Virginia, the author has been a regular contributor to the daily newspaper The Virginian-Pilot and the weekly newspaper The New Journal and Guide, and Hampton Roads television affiliates, ABC, CBS, and NBC, the local Public Broadcasting Networks, and numerous radio programs, including popular call-in talk shows, done in her office at home and at her local PBS.
Professor Barnes’s picture was featured on the cover of Portfolio Magazine (Hampton Roads, Virginia, l988). Inside the issue, she discussed "Race and Economics: The Dilemma of the Black Middle Class." The cover picture was featured one year in a television advertisement collage to attract tourists to the resort region in which she lives-Southampton Roads, Virginia (Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Newport News, and Hampton).
