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    AWBA City Club Friday Forum with Ned Blackhawk

    September 27, 2024, 11:30 am

    …West (Harvard, 2006). Join the City Club as we hear from Ned Blackhawk, the 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner in Nonfiction, on the critical importance of Native history not only to…

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    The Negro in Brazilian Society

    Florestan Fernandes

    …won the Prêmio Jabuti (the most important and well-known literary award in Brazil). In 1969 he fled to Canada for political reasons and began to teach at the University of…

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    The Arabs

    Thomas Kiernan

    …of the Arabs. Paramount in his analysis is the importance of Islam, the principal Middle Eastern religion, and how it has helped mould the character and proclivities of the “elusive,…

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    The New World of Negro Americans

    Harold R. Isaacs

    …strength of Isaacs’ work, in addition to the verbatim reporting of the interviews upon which the book is based, lies in its historical grasp of what is important in the…

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    Sonia Sanchez

    …a civilization.’ When I began to speak out loud and I began to write, I knew that I bore responsibility for a civilization, and that is so important and earthshaking…

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    The Homeplace

    Marilyn Nelson Waniek

    …and work to match your goodness?” This is a worthy addition to any poetry collection, but it’s of particular importance with the recent interest in the airmen and the contribution…

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    The War Before the War

    Andrew Delbanco

    …that my formal intellectual experiences were rather pale – but I spent a good deal of time reading, and most important, I met my future wife, Dawn Ho, who grew…

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    Years of Infamy

    Michi Weglyn

    …from his hometown to survive the Nazi holocaust, so he well understood the importance of supporting Michi as she documented the history of her own internment in the 1940’s. He…

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    Non-European Peoples of South Africa

    Ralph J. Bunche

    …South African government’s objections to hosting a black scholar.[1] Bunche also worked with Gunnar Myrdal on his epic study of race in America from 1938-1940, along with other important scholars,…

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    Isabel Allende

    …and the Allendes. “This sounds very corny but my life has been determined by two things that have been extremely important: love and violence,” the writer says. “There is sorrow,…

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    The Struggle for Equality

    James M. McPherson

    In The Struggle for Equality, the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson offered an important and timely analysis of the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the…

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    The Rediscovery of America

    Ned Blackhawk

    …drawn from years of research and an estimable depth and breadth of understanding, Ned Blackhawk demonstrates the critical importance of Native history not only to U.S. history, but also, and…

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    The Unity of Mankind in Greek Thought

    H.C. Baldry

    …woman. This study will interest not only classical scholars but also historians and philosophers. In particular Baldry’s assessment of the influence of Alexander and the ideas of Zeno is important….

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …Scene he earned enough money to buy the Harlem home where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1951 Hughes published one of his most important poetry collections,…

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    La Raza

    Stan Steiner

    …The New Indians, presents a passionate and at times poetic journalistic account of recent events of importance to this growing and increasingly self-conscious minority. Steiner’s La Raza is a book…

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    The Family Chao

    Lan Samantha Chang

    …and suspense, and is, said Miwa Messer of the podcast “Poured Over,” an important post-immigrant novel. It has a lot to say about ABCs or American-born Chinese. It has a…

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    Half American

    Matthew F. Delmont

    …really an important perspective on what it meant to fight and win this war.” Medgar Evers, who grew up in Mississippi, was 19 when he arrived in Normandy, assigned to…

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    Cultural Differences and Medical Care

    Lyle Saunders

    This book is an important addition both to the list of general works about the culture of the Spanish-speaking people of the Southwest and to the study of medicine as…

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    Oprah Winfrey

    …“Shades of Single Protein.” “TIME Magazine” – 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century 1997 “Newsweek” – Most Important Person in Books and Media “TV Guide” – Television Performer…

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    Negro Politicians

    Harold F. Gosnell

    …Gosnell became an important member of the discipline’s “Chicago school,” which incorporated methods from economics, sociology, and psychology. Gosnell’s influence in political science began with his dissertation, a study of…