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Selected by W.E.B Du Bois and published together for the first time, a collection of 150 rare and beautiful photographs of African Americans out of slavery and beyond, with essays by Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis and the MacAthur fell...

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Evocative and passionately written, this debut short story collection--a finalist for Canada's Governor General's Award--explores emotional and physical absences, the ways in which people leave and are left, and whether it's ever possible to move on.

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An incredible treasure trove of more than 150 illustrations detailing a small nation of African Americans prepared to make their mark on America

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Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty investigates the transformative experience of the photograph. In this book Deborah Willis explores historical perceptions of beauty and desire through artistic and ethnographic imagery and the role ind...

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Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. Well beyond its health effects, the pandemic has wrought major changes in peoples everyday lives as they confront restrictions imposed by physical distanc...

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Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. Well beyond its health effects, the pandemic has wrought major changes in peoples everyday lives as they confront restrictions imposed by physical distanc...

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As a student in the 1970s, Deborah Willis came to the realization that images of black beauty, female and male, simply did not exist in the larger culture. Determined to redress this imbalance, Willis examined everything from vintage ladies' journ...

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There has never been a First Lady like her before. While there have been a slew of Obama celebrity books, none contain the message of Deborah Willis and Emily Bernard's eye-opening book. With nearly 200 compelling photographs, these two noted scho...

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The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug dealer's girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls ...

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Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world-including a hunky Israeli soldier, an endearing fellow Canadian, and an assortment of...

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Reflections in Black, the first comprehensive history of black photographers, is a groundbreaking pictorial collection of African American life. Featuring the work of undisputed masters such as James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks, and Carrie Mae Weems a...

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In Malevolent Nurture, Deborah Willis explores the dynamics of witchcraft accusation through legal documents, pamphlet literature, religious tracts, and the plays of Shakespeare.

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In Malevolent Nurture, Deborah Willis explores the dynamics of witchcraft accusation through legal documents, pamphlet literature, religious tracts, and the plays of Shakespeare.

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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Arranged alphabetically, some 177 entries provide name, birth and/or activity dates, biographical information, a selected bibliography, a selected list of exhibitions, and listings of public repositories where photographs are housed. A selection o...

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Provides brief biographical sketches for nearly seventy African-American photographers active during the first century of photography.

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Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. Well beyond its health effects, the pandemic has wrought major changes in people?s everyday lives as they confront restrictions imposed by physical distan...

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Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. Well beyond its health effects, the pandemic has wrought major changes in people?s everyday lives as they confront restrictions imposed by physical distan...

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Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize - One of Scientific American's Best Staff Reads of 2023 A funny, poignant, and page-turning debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel in a love story of interplanetary proportions.

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Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the

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Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the

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What freedom looked like for black Americans in the Civil War era

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What freedom looked like for black Americans in the Civil War era

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Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist working primarily in North Carolina and Virginia during the r...

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A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually s...

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Question Bridge assembles a series of questions posed to black men, by and for other black men, along with the corresponding responses and portraits of the participants. The questions range from the comic to the sublimely philosophical: from "...

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To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty-men and women of African descent who...

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Abuse, suicidal thoughts, alcoholism, drug abuse, and promiscuity were the themes of the author's life. Haunted by her past, she saw no future until God turned a life of agony into a life of praise.

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Very few would dare to compare any person, past or present, to the great 19th century preacher, C.H. Spurgeon. However, this author defies the masses and presents to the world, Rev. Walter Bowie, Jr., one of the few African American reformed preac...

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