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Peace Adzo Medie
Peace Adzo Medie is a Ghanaian writer and Senior Lecturer in Gender and International Politics at the University of Bristol in England and a Research Fellow at the University of Ghana.
She has published several short stories, and her book Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
She is an award-winning scholar and has been awarded several fellowships. She holds a PhD in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in Geography from the University of Ghana. She was born in Liberia.
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Hatima Parker is an African-American teenage girl living on the mean streets
of South Central Los Angeles. Life in the hood is always tough, but life
produces more obstacles when an African-American man named Rodney King is
beaten by the LAPD and an African-American teenage girl named Latasha
Harlins is murdered by a Korean woman.
Hatima dreams of becoming a Marine and an Africanist, and her goals cause
her to question her world. She’s not sure if she wants to pursue a career
with the US Armed Forces, as that could easily lead to a career in law
enforcement. She also finds herself connecting the teachings of Martin
Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Marcus Garvey, Frederick
Douglass, Nelson Mandela, and other black leaders to the incidents of racism
she witnesses in her world in order to see if their many ways to change the
status quo were effective and still are.
Hatima also starts a relationship with a Korean teenage boy named Joshua
Yang. However, since racial tensions are high between African Americans and
Korean Americans, there are many people against the biracial couple being
together.
Hatima learns the world is far from perfect, and throughout 1991 and 1992,
she learns how to take a stand against a world that often chooses hatred
over love.
