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From Slave Ship to Harvard

Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family

by James H. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012

“Part historical narrative, part genealogical detective work,” this is t****he true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations (Library Journal). Using diaries, court records, legal documents, books, paintings, photographs, and oral histories, From Slave Ship to...
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Nimrod

Selected Writings

by Frieda Ekotto
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018

The Chadian writer Nimrod—philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist—is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod’s writing has been translated into English until now. Introductory material by Frieda Ekotto provides context for...
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Genetic Geographies

The Trouble with Ancestry

by Catherine Nash
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

What might be wrong with genetic accounts of personal or shared ancestry and origins? Genetic studies are often presented as valuable ways of understanding where we come from and how people are related. In Genetic Geographies, Catherine Nash pursues their troubling implications for our perception of...
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Sexuality and Slavery

Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

by Trevor Burnard, Stephanie M. H. Camp, David Doddington
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most...
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by D. C. Zook
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018

One of the unfortunate by-products of our current approach to diversity has been the creation of an enclave society. Since the benefits of diversity are apportioned by group identity, diversity encourages us to find our own group and then "stick with our own kind." The result is inter-group...
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That's Racist!

How the Regulation of Speech and Thought Divides Us All

by Adrian Hart
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014

Twenty-first century British kids are more comfortable with ethnic diversity than ever before. The 'mixed race' population is rising exponentially. In school playgrounds across Britain, kids are inventing a version of colour-blind, multi-ethnic interaction that should teach the adult world a thing...
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12 Angry Men

True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today

by Gregory S. Parks, Matthew W. Hughey
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011

“Beautifully written, painfully honest” first-person accounts of racial profiling, as experienced by a dozen black men from all over America (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow). In an era of contentious debate about controversial police practices and, more broadly, the significance...
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Identité et reconnaissance

L'Afrique en sursis

by SAMBA DIAKITE
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2015

Si tel ou tel individu peut être conforme au principe de la vérité et de la justice, il n'en va pas de même pour les peuples, les ethnies et les identités. Ici, le principe universel imprègne toutes les sphères particulières de la vie et la vie...
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Speaking of Slavery

Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy

by Steven A. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The author's findings about the surprising persistence of the "language of slavery"...
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by Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2014

Essai sur l’inégalité des races humaines - Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau   Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.   Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (1816 - 1882), dit le comte de...
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Through the Fog

Towards Inclusive Anti-Racist Teaching

by Tara L. Affolter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019

Drawing from over 20 years of teaching experience in the U.S., ranging from pre-kindergarten to post-graduate, Affolter illustrates personal, practical, and theoretical ways for teachers to grapple with the complexities of race and racism within their own schools and communities and develop as inclusive...
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Beyond Expectations

Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain

by Onoso Imoagene
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

In *Beyond Expectations, *Onoso Imoagene delves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. She argues that they conceive of an alternative notion of "black" identity that differs radically from African American and Black Caribbean...
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Hoosier Hysteria

A Fateful Year in the Crosshairs of Race in America

by Meri Henriques Vahl
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

Indiana University, September 1963. Meri Henriques, a naïve freshman from New York, arrives on campus thinking she’s about to enroll at an idyllic Midwestern college. Instead, she discovers a storm is brewing. An intriguing cast of characters inhabits Meri’s new and often troubled world: Katherine...
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Inclure

Quelle laïcité pour le Québec ?

by Jean Dorion
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2013

Dans cet essai percutant, Jean Dorion expose sans ambages son point de vue sur la question de la laïcité, de l’immigration et du pluralisme au Québec, livrant un ouvrage qui donne également la parole, pour une rare fois, à des femmes musulmanes pratiquantes, avec ou sans foulard. Partisan sans...
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