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Tributes to John Hope Franklin
Language: en
Pages: 112
Authors: John Hope Franklin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: University of Missouri Press

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In 1947 John Hope Franklin, then a professor of history at North Carolina College for Negroes, wrote From Slavery to Freedom. Now in its eighth edition, that bo
Vibrant Matter
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Jane Bennett
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-04 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things
Mirror to America
Language: en
Pages: 562
Authors: John Hope Franklin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-15 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

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John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned s
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Rebecca Sharpless
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-11 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs th
Sessue Hayakawa
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Daisuke Miyao
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-28 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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DIVCritical biography of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became a popular silent film star in the U.S., that looks at how Hollywood treated issues of race