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These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-02-21
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This remarkable biography, based on much new information, examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Born in New York in 1819, Alexander Crummell was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, after...
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Oxford University Press
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1989-08-17
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Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes...
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Oxford University Press
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1977-02-03
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In A Voice from the South, Anna Julia Cooper, a scholar born into slavery, delivers one of the most powerful statements of intellectual and social emancipation in American history.
Written during the rise of Jim Crow, this collection of essays argues that education and...
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Yekri Editions
Parution :
2025-11-01
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Commencing by explaining how the word Ininew' refers to the phrase 'mixing of four,' Wilfred Buck embarks upon a series of dazzling stories: herein is the story of how I lived and how I died and how I lived again along with the dreams I have dreamed and the visions I...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2021-09-01
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Since the 1970s, poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has been putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden’s claim that “poetry makes nothing happen.” For Johnson, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, writing has always been “a...
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Between the Lines
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2020-06-15
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Medicare was born in Saskatchewan, but its roots are global. Radical Medicine offers a thrilling new history that connects the history of socialized health care in Canada with the New Deal in the United States, the October Revolution in Russia, and the British Labour...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2019-06-01
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What does it mean in the era of Black Lives Matter to continue to ignore and deny the violence that is the foundation of the Canadian nation state? BlackLife discloses the ongoing destruction of Black people as enacted not simply by state structures, but beneath them in...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2019-06-01
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Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers.Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the...
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BookThug
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2017-10-01
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DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example,DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals,...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2010-10-27
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