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    Outcasts from Evolution

    John S. Haller Jr.

    In the only book to date to explore the period between the 1859 publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species and the discovery in 1900 of Gregor Mendel’s experiments in genetics,…

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    Warrant for Genocide

    Norman Cohn

    …in one year and helped convince 17 million Germans to vote Nazi in 1933. Cohn shows how the fiction of a Jewish conspiracy, then combined with racist ideology to produce…

  • Portrait of George Lamming
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    George Lamming

    …won’t know the you that’s hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin.” Lamming was born in Carrington Village, Barbados. He earned a scholarship to Combermere, a distinguished high school…

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    All Souls’ Rising

    Madison Smartt Bell

    …Bret Easton Ellis, providing us all the details with an almost deviant relish. It’s only when the noble slave Touissant Louverture takes control of the African mob that a bit…

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    2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony

    September 27, 2024, 6:30 pm

    …with our 2024 winners: Maxine Hong Kingston, Lifetime Achievement Ned Blackhawk, Non-fiction, “The Rediscovery of America” Teju Cole, Fiction, “Tremor” Monica Youn, Poetry, “From From” The 2024 awards ceremony will…

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    Memorial Drive

    Natasha Trethewey

    In the final paragraph of Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey describes driving with her mother toward Gulfport, Mississippi, where their relationship began in 1966 when Natasha was born. “Often, when I am…

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    The Negro Family in the United States

    E. Franklin Frazier

    Howard University Professor E. Franklin Frazier’s 1939 book, The Negro Family in the United States, was the first comprehensive study of the family life of African Americans, beginning with colonial-era…

  • Cover of Amazing Grace
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    Amazing Grace

    Jonathan Kozol

    …books I’ve ever read. Jonathon Kozol based this book on a neighborhood in the South Bronx, called Mott Haven. Mott Haven happens to be not only the poorest district in…

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    The Abandonment of the Jews

    David S. Wyman

    It has long been alleged that officials in the Roosevelt administration knew, in surprising detail, about Adolf Hitler’s plans to exterminate all the Jews in Nazi Europe–and that these officials…

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    The Women of Plums

    Dolores Kendrick

    …but how plain country women, resisting self-pity, sustained dreams and compassion: “Soon I’ll go for a stroll/ in my blue silk dress,/ go into town/ and buy myself a plum,/…

  • Portrait of Adrienne Kennedy
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    Adrienne Kennedy

    …honorary doctorate in 2003 in recognition of the 50th anniversary of her graduation. Born in Pittsburgh in 1931, Kennedy was raised in Cleveland. She currently resides in New York City….

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    The Lost Cities of Africa

    Basil Davidson

    …African shores. Basil Davidson is the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa and certainly the best trusted in Africa itself. Davidson is the often-overlooked fourth man…

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    African Ark

    Carol Beckwith

    American photographer Carol Beckwith and Australian photographer Angela Fisher discovered their common pursuit upon their chance meeting in Kenya in 1978: to understand and depict the richness of African culture…

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    Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience

    Walter A. Jackson

    …he continued to write on public policy matters. In 1938, however, Myrdal returned to the United States to begin work for the Carnegie Corporation on the American “Negro problem.” Myrdal…

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    Random Family

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

    …an extension of the neighborhood, a place most men enter and a rare few leave. They learn the realities of welfare: the myriad of misdemeanors that trigger reduction or termination…

  • Cover of Death Does Not End at the Sea
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    Death Does Not End at the Sea

    Gbenga Adesina

    …in order not to drown, in a stunning sequence that invokes the middle passage. In a lyrical voice at once new and surprisingly ancient, Adesina’s Death Does Not End at…

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    Make Your Way Home

    Carrie R. Moore

    In eleven stories that span Florida marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities, Make Your Way Home follows Black men and women who grapple with the homes that have…

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    Black Metropolis

    St. Clair Drake

    …hundred years and what has not. St. Clair Drake was born in Suffolk, Virginia. Upon graduation from Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in 1931, he became involved with The Society…

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    The !Kung San

    Richard Borshay Lee

    …way of life, at least in Africa. The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society, an ecological and historical study, is Professor Lee’s major statement on his…

  • Portrait of Derek Walcott
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    Derek Walcott

    …Mountain won the Obie Award for distinguished foreign play of 1971. Walcott’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, The New York Review of Books, The Nation,…