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August 1 , 2005 |
Defeating Darkness
He lived with his beautiful mother, a hopeless alcoholic who was dying from whiskey poisoning. The young boy, with his two younger sisters and a baby brother, trailed along with Mama and the men in her life from one camp shanty to another, from one whisky bottle to another. Abuse, neglect, violence, death, and starvation were all he knew. It was this struggle, which he finally conquered, that eventually earned him the nickname of “Scrap Iron.” The horrifying existence compelled him to write this inspiring memoir about “just another nigger,” lost in the toughness of those dirty camps until he escaped his own paths of darkness to become a decorated military hero, earn a doctorate degree and attain membership in Mensa. The Paths of Darkness is available from the Publish America’s website. —Text excerpted from the publisher's website.
UH In Print UH faculty and staff who had articles or other works published. • Manoa Professor Chennat Gopalakrishnan and Leeward CC Assistant Professor Jason K. Levy published “Water Allocation Among Multiple Stakeholders: Conflict Analysis of the Waiahole Water Project, Hawai‘i” in the International Journal of Water Resources Development. • Manoa Director of the Center for Health Disparities Research Marilyn McCubbin co-authored “Advancement of Health Disparities Research: A Conceptual Approach” in Nursing Outlook. E-mail news about UH faculty and staff who have appeared In Print to newsatuh@hawaii.edu. |
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Manoa alumnus Charles Williams published The Paths of Darkness,
an explosive, shocking memoir about child abuse, poverty and violence.
This is the true story of a scared eight-year-old black child’s
struggles to survive amid hunger, poverty and squalor of the Appalachian
coalfields and mining camps of West Virginia.
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