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    We Europeans

    Julian Huxley

    …ideologies, scientists critical of the use of race to justify oppression and discrimination published a number of important works. We Europeans: A Survey of “Racial” Problems by Huxley and Haddon,…

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    Great House

    Nicole Krauss

    …immigrated to London. Her paternal grandparents were born in Hungary and Belarus, met in Israel, and came later to New York. Many of these places play important roles in her…

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    September 27 – October 3, 2021

    …up for herself against classmates that question her cultural identity. Girlboymix Why is it so important to be a boy or a girl? Estilo Americano What is supposed to be…

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    George Lamming

    …Bogues notes that “the tight relationship between politics, knowledge, language and the spaces of freedom in Lamming’s writings makes him one of the most important political novelists in Caribbean literature.”…

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    All Souls’ Rising

    Madison Smartt Bell

    …thorough drubbing for the next 400 pages. While the revolt was caused primarily by the inhumane treatment of the imported African slaves by their French masters, the uprising was also…

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    Memorial Drive

    Natasha Trethewey

    …that if she was going to get mentioned then I was going to be the one to tell her story, and to put the important role she played in my…

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    In the Language of My Captor

    Shane McCrae

    …2013 conversation hosted by PEN America. “That is, the more one studies and writes with history, the more often one discovers that apparently large and important human developments — a…

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    The Abandonment of the Jews

    David S. Wyman

    …he suggests, with good cause, that a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference to anything not perceived as being of direct strategic importance to the United States indirectly led to countless…

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    Tacky’s Revolt

    Vincent Brown

    …World. “This is truly a remarkable and important event in the history of the world, largely unknown (I confess that I was ignorant of it),” writes Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards juror…

  • Portrait of Samuel R. Delany
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    Samuel R. Delany

    …Report named Delany one of the 50 most important people in changing the culture’s view of gayness over a half century. He lives with his partner, Dennis Rickett, in Philadelphia….

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    African Ark

    Carol Beckwith

    …from birth until death. During an interview with CNN, Beckwith said, “Angela and I feel when we come back to the Western world that we’ve really lost the important rituals…

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    Generations of Captivity

    Ira Berlin

    …terms of three distinct “generations,” thus emphasizing shifts over time. Berlin argues that geographic and temporal differences in the first two centuries of North American slavery had important consequences for…

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    Earth and High Heaven

    Gwethalyn Graham

    …of importance in their home, and both encouraged their four children to think for themselves—theirs was a family which set the rules rather than followed them. At the age of…

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    Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience

    Walter A. Jackson

    important area of race relations. Shocked by the extreme inequalities of income on his first visit to the United States in 1929, Myrdal returned to Sweden in the 1930s where…

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    All That She Carried

    Tiya Miles

    …allowing us all to read this quite beautiful and important book.” Miles earned a degree in Afro-American studies from Harvard, a master’s in women’s studies from Emory University and a…