Get Up And Get On It

A Black Entrepreneur's Lessons on Creating Legacy and Wealth

Dana Frank

National Bestseller! A compelling story of entrepreneurial determination Are you ready to embark on an inspiring journey of resilience and success, especially for those often facing daunting challenges in our society? Dana Frank's debut book, Get Up & Get On It! A Black Entrepreneur's Lessons on Creating Legacy & Wealth, is a powerful testament to the enduring spirit of individuals from marginalized communities, such as People of Color and women navigating the male-dominated business world. This captivating narrative traces its roots back to 1950 when Gerald Frank, a determined Black man, arrived in Seattle at the tender age of 18. Fleeing the violence of Detroit and the suffocating grip of Jim Crow Laws, Gerald carried nothing but dreams and drumsticks in his heart. His unwavering belief that he could carve out a better life set the stage for an incredible journey. Today, over 70 years later, the real estate empire forged by Gerald and his wife, Theresa, in Seattle's Central District continues to flourish under the guidance of the third generation of the Frank family. But theirs was not a journey paved with silver spoons. In Get Up & Get On It!, Dana Frank paints a vivid picture of the hurdles her family faced. Dana herself confronted racial barriers as her father made unconventional business choices. When her parents' thirty-two-year marriage ended in a bitter divorce, Dana and her mother emerged as fearless business partners, facing the brink of bankruptcy left by her father. Their story is a testament to fortitude, perseverance, bravery, and unrelenting hard work. As a single mother and entrepreneur, Dana learned the power of leveraging her network, staying true to her story, and envisioning a brighter future. Today, as the President of The TD Frank Family Properties, Dana's mission is clear: to teach how to create generational wealth by working smarter, not harder. She emphasizes a timeless truth: "Equity grows, cash erodes," and reveals how real estate investments can be a game-changer for future generations. Dana firmly believes that anyone, regardless of their birth circumstances, can rewrite the trajectory of their lives. Get Up & Get On It: A Black Entrepreneur's Lessons on Creating Legacy & Wealth offers: Personal stories filled with humor and invaluable insights on reshaping your inner narrative. A straightforward yet potent approach to building generational wealth through the R.E.A.L. method: Research, Expand, Amplify, and Leverage connections. Guidance on gaining advantages, progressing, fostering empowerment, and achieving success in wealth-building through real estate. A treasure trove of historical photos that illuminate the family's ties to challenging real estate markets and their connections with the vibrant music scene of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, featuring Dana's uncle, Quincy Jones. Original social-justice poems penned by Dana Frank herself throughout the book, amplifying the narrative that People of Color can indeed "Get Up and Get On It!" Get Up & Get On It: A Black Entrepreneur's Lessons on Creating Legacy & Wealth is a compelling story of determination that challenges conventional paths to freedom. It is essential reading not only for business influencers, entrepreneurs, executives, and philanthropists but also for anyone seeking inspiration and the keys to unlocking their full potential. Dive into Dana Frank's remarkable journey and discover how to rewrite your own story of success.

Bananeras

Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America

Dana Frank

"I want to learn how to defend myself from whoever tries to oppress me, whether it's my husband, my union, or my boss."--a bananera Women banana workers--bananeras--are waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and broadly re-imagine the possibilities of international labor solidarity. Over the past 20 years, bananeras have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives. Highly accessible and narrative in style, Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America recounts the history and growth of this vital movement. Starting in 1985 with one union in La Lima, Honduras, and expanding domestically through the late 1990s, experienced activists successfully reached out to younger women with a message of empowerment. In a compelling example of transnational feminism at work, the bananeras crossed borders to ally with banana workers in five other banana exporting countries in Latin America, arguing all the while that empowering women at every level of their organizations makes for stronger unions, better able to confront the ever-encroaching multinational corporations. When the bananeras of Latin America, with their male allies, explicitly integrate gender equity into their organizing work as essential to effective labor internationalism--when they refuse to separate the global struggle against trans-national corporations from the formidable efforts at home to achieve equity and respect--they inspire all of us to envision a new framework for internationalism that places women's human rights at the center of global class politics. A professor of American studies at the University of California Santa Cruz, Dana Frank focuses on US and international labor issues. Published in The Washington Post, The Nation, and other periodicals, she is the author of Buy American and, with Robin D.G. Kelley and Howard Zinn, of Three Strikes.

Three Strikes

Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century

Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin D. G. Kelley

Miners, musicians, and "counter girls" go on strike in this people's history of work in the early 20th century by three acclaimed historians.

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?

Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times

Dana Frank

Four stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the Depression era. In four tales, Professor Dana Frank explores how ordinary working people in the US turned to collective action to meet the crisis of the Great Depression and what we can learn from them today. Readers are introduced to * the 7 daring Black women who worked as wet nurses and staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination * the groups who used mutual aid, cooperatives, eviction protests, and demands for government relief to meet their basic needs * the million Mexican and Mexican American repatriados who were erased from mainstream historical memory, while (often fictitious) white “Dust Bowl migrants” became enshrined * the Black Legion, a white supremacist fascist organization that saw racism, antisemitism, anti-Catholicism, and fascism as the cure to the Depression While capitalism crashed during the Great Depression, racism did not and was, in fact, wielded by some to blame and oppress their neighbors. Patriarchy persisted, too, undermining the power of social movements and justifying women’s marginalization within them. For other ordinary people, collective action gave them the means to survive and fight against such hostilities. What resulted were powerful new forms of horizontal reciprocity and solidarity that allowed people to provide each other with the bread, beans, and comradeship of daily life. The New Deal, when it arrived, provided vital resources to many, but others were cut off from its full benefits, especially if they were women or people of color. What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? shows us how we might look to the past to think about how we can shape the future of our own failed economy. These lessons can also help us imagine and build movements to challenge such an economy—and to transform the state as a whole—in service to the common good without replicating racism and patriarchy.

Wine Food

New Adventures in Drinking and Cooking [A Recipe Book]

Dana Frank, Andrea Slonecker

A delicious, comprehensive playbook that pairs 75 wine styles—including where and who to buy them from—with 75 recipes that complement them perfectly “If you want to know what good taste in the modern food and wine scene looks like, this is your manual.”—Jordan Mackay, co-author of The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste Wine Food is a wine course in a cookbook for everyone who wants to learn about wine simply by drinking it. Here, natural wine bar and winery owner Dana Frank and wine-loving recipe writer Andrea Slonecker distill the basics—how to buy, how to store, how to taste—and deliver more than seventy-five instant-hit recipes inspired by delectable, affordable wines that go with them beautifully. Each recipe opens with a succinct summary of the wine style that inspired it, followed by a brief explanation of how it complements the flavors and textures in the recipe. There are also recommendations for three to eight producers of each wine style. Frank and Slonecker also include a wine flavors cheat sheet, a label lexicon lesson, a short course on wine tasting like a pro, and illustrated features on matching wine with types of favorite foods (typical take-out, beloved pasta dishes, and popular sweets). Whether you like thinking about which bottle to pour at brunch, with picnic fare, for midweek dinners, at weekend feasts, or for all of those times, Wine Food makes learning about wine flavorful, fun, and easy.

Membrane Lipid Composition of 'Hass' Avocado Fruit During Ripening and Storage

Dana Frank Faubion

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Buy American

The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism

Dana Frank

Buy American is an exciting history of economic nationalism, of the movements that made odd bedfellows of trade unions, corporate interests, and government as they attempted to entice, cajole, and occasionally mislead American consumers to keep their money inside the nations's borders.

Local Girl Makes History

Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments

Dana Frank

A Bay Area historian's nostalgic journey to childhood tourist attractions reveals their hidden stories and universal relevance.

The Long Honduran Night

Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup

Dana Frank

This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two perspectives; first, the broad picture of Honduras since the coup, including the coup itself, its continuation in two repressive regimes, and secondly, the evolving Honduran resistance movement, and a new, broad solidarity movement in the United States. Although it is full of terrible things, this not a horror story: this narrative directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness, in which powerless sobbing mothers cry over bodies in the morgue. Rather, it’s about sobering challenges and the inspiring collective strength with which people face them. Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Baneras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America from Haymarket Books. Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation, New York Times, Politico Magazine, Foreign Affairs.com, The Baffler, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and many other publications, and she has testified in both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament.

Purchasing Power

Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929

Dana Frank

Analyzing consumer organizing tactics and the decline of the Seattle movement as a case study of the U.S. labor movement, this work traces its transformation after the famous Seattle General Strike of 1919, paying special attention to the gender dynamics of labor's consumer campaigns.

Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big

The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down

Dana Frank

"Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events."—Library Journal Woolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.

Factors Affecting Postharvest Storage Life of "Hass" Avocado (Persea Americana Mill.).

Dana Frank Faubion

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El poder de las mujeres es poder sindical

la transformación de los sindicatos bananeros en América Latina

Dana Frank

Extrait de la couverture : "A finales del siglo pasado e inicios de 2000, el activismo de las mujeres sindicalistas de la industria del banano se expandió por toda Centroamérica, y atravesó Colombia y Ecuador, mediante una nueva instancia: la Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Sindicatos Bananeros, COLSIBA. A lo largo de un camino escabroso, estas madres, hijas, esposas y obreras han logrado construir una propuesta propia dentro de las estructuras del movimiento obrero mixto, por lo que ésta es también la historia de una política de género en la que los hombres siempre están involucrados, al igual que los influyentes aliados internacionales."

Schriftspracherwerb unter schwierigen Bedingungen

Vor welchen Hürden Kinder mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache beim Lesen- und Schreibenlernen stehen

Dana Frank

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Deutsch - Pädagogik, Sprachwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Universität Leipzig, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bis heute wird in Deutschland stetig über den Status der Bundesrepublik im Bezug auf Migration diskutiert. Unabhängig davon steht aber fest, dass Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund ein Teil unserer Gesellschaft sind. Gerade an Schulen wird dies immer deutlicher. So hatten im Jahr 2010 29,2 % der Schüler (vgl. Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration, 2012: S. 163-165) an allgemeinbildenden Schulen einen Migrationshintergrund, 8,9 % der Gesamtschülerschaft waren nicht deutscher Nationalität. Das ist ein nicht unerheblicher Teil und es zeigt sich, dass die Tendenz steigend ist. Die Einwanderungs- und die Bildungspolitik Deutschlands haben in den letzten 60 Jahren nicht adäquat auf die Anforderungen, welche sich daraus ergeben, reagiert und diese Bevölkerungsgruppe marginalisiert (vgl. Jeuk, 2010: 103). Die Folgen werden deutlich an herrschender Bildungsbenachteiligung und soziokulturellen Diskrepanzen. In der folgenden Arbeit liegt der Fokus dabei besonders auf dem Grundschulfach Deutsch und vor welchen Hürden Kinder mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache (DAZ) beim Schriftspracherwerb stehen. Die Sprache dient im schulischen Kontext „nicht nur als ein Medium der Verständigung, sondern auch als Instrument des Wissenserwerbs“ (Schmölzer-Eibinger, 2006: 128). Daher liegt in der Vermittlung (schrift-)sprachlicher Kompetenzen der Schlüssel für einen erfolgreichen Schulbesuch.

Schriftspracherwerb in der Grundschule. Welche Herausforderungen und Fördermöglichkeiten gibt es?

GRIN Verlag (Hrsg.)

Dieser Sammelband besteht aus vier Einzelpublikationen. Die erste Arbeit thematisiert die Folgen herrschender Bildungsbenachteiligung und soziokultureller Diskrepanzen besonders auf das Grundschulfach Deutsch. Sie untersucht, vor welchen Hürden Kinder mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache (DAZ) beim Schriftspracherwerb stehen. Die Sprache dient im schulischen Kontext nicht nur als ein Medium der Verständigung, sondern auch als Instrument des Wissenserwerbs. Daher liegt in der Vermittlung (schrift-)sprachlicher Kompetenzen der Schlüssel für einen erfolgreichen Schulbesuch. Der zweite Text beschäftigt sich mit dem Schriftspracherwerb zugrundeliegenden Theorien und stellt Stufenmodelle vor. Er beschreibt sowohl die Chancen als auch Grenzen dieser Modelle und gibt Beispiele zu Übungs- und Fördermöglichkeiten. Die dritte Ausarbeitung untersucht das Thema des Schriftspracherwerbs. Was bedeutet Schriftspracherwerb? Woraus besteht die Schriftsprache und wie wird sie erworben?. Diese Fragen werden in dieser Arbeit geklärt. Dabei stützt sich diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit überwiegend auf die Fachliteratur von namhaften Erziehungswissenschaftlern und Pädagogen wie Agi Schründer-Lenzen, Wilhelm Grießhaber und Gerd Mannhaupt. Der Großteil der Literatur zur phonologischen Bewusstheit befasst sich mit der vorschulischen Erfassung und Förderung von phonologischen Fähigkeiten. Die Förderung sollte allerdings mit dem Eintritt in die Grundschule nicht abgebrochen werden. Diese Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich deshalb mit der phonologischen Bewusstheit im Rahmen der Sprachentwicklung und ihrer Diagnostik und Förderung innerhalb der Grundschule.

Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store, Win Big

The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-down

Dana Frank

"This sparkling story of intrepid young women is not just a strike narrative of the Great Depression, but echoes down to our own times. Dana Frank is always on the side of those who are willing to fight!" ––Nelson Lichtenstein, Director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara "Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events."––Library Journal Woolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.

Austin Art in Public Places

Celebrating Thirty Years of Public Art in Austin

Dana Frank (Editor), Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin

The City of Austin's Art in Public Places (AIPP) program is dedicated to expanding Austin citizens' experience with visual art, seeking better understanding of our communities and our individual lives. By encouraging artists capable of creating works of art in public places, AIPP strives to stimulate the vitality of the City while enhancing Austin's standing as a leader in the arts.

Censorship of the Northern Press During the Civil War

Dana Frank Kellerman

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The Moon Can Tell

A Novel

Dana Frank

The wonder in getting what you didn't know you want... So thinks Philippa Swift, when she finds a best friend in Eliza Romin. It is 1969, in Munich, Germany. The imaginative 13-year-olds rule the woods around the American army post, galloping on fantasy horses, exploring the German cemetery, buying sweets from an enigmatic shopkeeper, and plotting their next overnight beneath the forest moon. At the Little Oktoberfest carnival, Philippa falls for the boy who runs the pony concession and gets closer to the horses, until the boy gets too close to her. And then Eliza and her family move back to the States, taking with them the personal secrets that had puzzled Philippa. Blindsided and bereft, Philippa wonders was it all real? She seeks solace in the cold of isolation, where she is forced to confront and decipher elusive aspects of who she is and what she really wants. The Moon Can Tell, in time-traveling narrative, lays bare the workings of Philippa's maturing psyche to reveal the texture, the emotional depth, and the risks of adolescent female friendship.

Balancing Acts

How a Japanese Immigrant Built a Life in the Face of Racial Danger-Until Federal Agents Seized Him.

Dana Frank

An early 20th-century immigrant’s story of perseverance—and his kidnapping by the US government Jack Inoway was 14 and alone when he left Japan for the United States. After decades of struggle, he eventually became a prominent restaurateur in Ohio. But in 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US government seized him, interrogated him as an alien enemy, and destroyed his livelihood and public identity. Weaving never-before-seen personal correspondence with vital historical context, Balancing Acts reveals Inoway’s true story of reinvention, resilience, and untimely death. Jack Inoway encountered anti-Asian racism at every turn but found strength in the thriving support networks of his fellow immigrants and his family, both in Japan and in the US. He learned how to navigate interracial marriage bans, alien land laws, and white supremacist groups like the KKK. He took what opportunities he could as a sugar plantation worker, an acrobat, and a cabin boy for the US Navy. Finally, in the 1920s, he achieved his obsessive dream of "success" by opening a chain of lucrative restaurants and becoming a pillar of the community. As immigrants in the US continue to face rampant hate and violence today, Jack Inoway’s story underscores the continuity and vicious power of anti-Asian racism. Balancing Acts is an intimate and compelling portrait of a Japanese man who strategized how to surmount barrier after barrier—until the federal government wrecked his life.