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Crossing the continent, 1527-1540
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Robert Goodwin |
The true story of America's first great explorer and adventurer—an African slave named Esteban DorantesCrossing the Continent takes us on an epic journey from Africa to Europe and America as Dr. Robe… |
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Seven spools of thread
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Angela Shelf Medearis |
When they are given the seemingly impossible task of turning thread into gold, the seven Ashanti brothers put aside their differences, learn to get along, and embody the principles of Kwanzaa. Includ… |
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This Is What We Found
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Ralph and Carl Creger |
How a white father and son in Little Rock came to champion equal rights and opportunities for Negroes. |
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The Sacrifice of Tamar (Readers Guide Editions)
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Naomi Ragen |
A rabbi's wife in New York is raped by a black man, but hides the incident from her husband and they continue sleeping as normal. On becoming pregnant she cannot tell who the father is, so decides ag… |
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Becoming Human
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Zakiyyah Iman Jackson |
Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open … |
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Queer Freedom
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Ana-Maurine Lara |
Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her eng… |
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Dark princess
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W. E. B. Du Bois |
29, 311 p. 24 cm |
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Bearing arms for his majesty
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Ben Vinson |
"This study uses the participation of free-colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militias as a prism for examining ra… |
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Rush Home Road
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Lori Lansens |
"When Addy Shadd was a young girl living in Rusholme, she was taught the history of her town, which was settled by fugitive slaves in the 1800s. It was told to her like a storybook legend - and altho… |
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Light, bright, and damned near white
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Stephanie Rose Bird |
The election of America's first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bi… |
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Marchin' the pilgrims home
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Stephen D. Glazier |
Stephen D. Glazier's Marchin' the Pilgrims Home offers an ethnographic analysis of the beliefs and practices of the Spiritual Baptists on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Variously known as Shouters… |
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Culture is our weapon
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Patrick Neate |
An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with music At a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to im… |
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Black Firsts
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Jessie Carney Smith,Casper Leroy Jordan,Jessie Carney Smith,Casper LeRoy Jordan,Jessie Carney Smith Ph.D. |
Readers will revel in the stories of barrier-breaking pioneers in all fields-arts, entertainment, business, civil rights, education, government, inventing, journalism, religion, science, sports, and … |
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The boy who walked into the world
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Robin Malan |
Serves as programme for the first performance at the Actors' Centre, Johannesburg Civic Theatre, Braamfontein, on 25 November 2005, and as complete text of the play. |
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