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RELIGION
The Soul of Judaism Jews of African Descent in America
A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States What makes a Jew? This book traces the history of Jews of African descent …
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COOKBOOK
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine…
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WHITE SUPREMACY
Fight the Power African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City
A story of resistance, power and politics as revealed through New York City’s complex history of police brutality The 2014 killing of Michael Br…
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HEALTH
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe…
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COOKBOOK
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine an…
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POLITICS
African Political Thought An Intellectual History of the Quest for Freedom
African liberation is often seen in terms of heroism, but seldom in terms of thought. Even Sartre, in his preface to Frantz Fanon's seminal The…
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SLAVERY
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sw…
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