Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba

Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary CubaProvides invaluable insight into the histories and lives of Cubans who trace their origins to the Anglo Caribbean.Robert Whitney, author of State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 19201940 Adds a missing piece to the existing literature about the renewal of black activism in Cuba, all the while showing the links and fractures between pre and post 1959 society.Devyn Spence Benson, Louisiana State University In the early

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We Wait for the Sun is a resonant

who wants to "buy house" and educate her daughters

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bipolar episodes

Unequal presents a gripping account of the struggles that shaped America and the insidiousness of racism

What makes this work so powerful is that many of the issues that the antipolice brutality movement faces today were the very issues faced by black people in nineteenth-century Baltimore

It is only recently that movements such as #OscarsSoWhite have raised awareness around the more complicated legacy of the Oscars and African American participation in film

daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic and unlikely World War II heroine

Seventeen-year-old Avery Anderson is convinced her senior year is ruined when she's uprooted from her life in DC and forced into the hostile home of her terminally ill grandmother