How to Be A Guide to Contemporary Living for African Americans

REAL MANNERS FOR REAL LIFEEtiquette is more than knowing which fork to use. Good manners are the rules that let us find our way in today's rapidly changing maze of lifestyles, customs, and relationships. Anyone who doesn't know these rules is living and working at a real disadvantage.InHow to Be,noted author and editor Harriette Cole treats manners as a resource for the empowerment of people of African descent. She offers guidance drawn from the tried-and-true experience and wisdom of our African-American elders, as well as from European mainstream traditions in many areas of life, including:Family -- immediate, extended, and blendedNew codes of dating, love, and sexEntertaining family, friends, and coworkers in both casual and formal settingsWorkplace issues -- from how to resign to what to wear on casual FridaysRites of passage, including weddings and funeralsHoliday celebrations like Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Juneteenth and much more

Harriette Cole is the author of Jumping the Broom: The African-American Wedding Planner and Jumping the Broom Wedding Workbook. She spent eleven years at Essence magazine working as both fashion and lifestyle editor before founding profundities, inc., an image development and production company. She lives in Harlem in New York City with her husband, George Chinsee.