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This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War-journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen. Charting a new path in the study of Sino-American relations, Gao Yunxiang foregrounds African...
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"In this evocative memoir, Cassandra Lane deftly uses the act of imagination to reclaim her ancestors' story as a backdrop for telling her own. The tradition of Black women's storytelling leaps forward within these pages-into fresh, daring, and excitingly new territory." -Bridgett M. Davis, author of The World According to Fannie Davis
When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of...
143) Black & White: An Intimate, Multicultural Perspective on "White Advantage" and the Paths to Change
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The anticipated debut by a biracial community leader and citizen activist, exploring his lived experience of systemic racism in North America and the paths forward.
My race duality has given me a unique perspective on both the Black and white experience in Canada…. What became most evident to me-most universal-was an important need for building bridges of understanding between Black and white Canadians. A need to inform and educate so that hopefully,...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Nelson Mandela in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Nelson Mandela's lifelong fight against apartheid. This system of racial segregation was enshrined in law in South Africa in 1948 and relegated non-white individuals to the position of second-class citizens. As part of the African National Congress, Mandela fought against...
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Beginning in the late seventeenth century and concluding with the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Almost Dead reveals how the thousands of captives who lived, bled, and resisted in the Black Urban Atlantic survived to form dynamic communities.
Michael Lawrence Dickinson uses cities with close commercial ties to shed light on similarities, variations, and linkages between urban Atlantic slave communities in mainland America and the Caribbean....
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