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Hamilton, Virginia. Harper, Judith E. Miller, Adrian Moon, Elaine Latzman. Nuurali, SimanSummary: A treasury of dozens of African-American folktales discusses their role in a broader cultural heritage, sharing such classics as the Brer Rabbit stories, the African trickster Anansi, and tales from the late nineteenth-century's "Southern Workman."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398 ANNHamilton, Virginia.
Summary: The nineteen stories in this book focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women. A remarkable book that honors our heritage while giving us hope and inspiration for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 HAMSummary: A collection of traditional stories from different parts of Africa, featuring varied characters and themes--some familiar, some newer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 NELSummary: Though often fighting for a country that did not recognize their rights or even their humanity, African Americans have fought courageously in every American war. Even though they often knew they would return to civilian lives of limited opportunities and unequal treatment, they served their nation with conviction and distinction. This volume offers inspiring profiles of African American service...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: In this episode, when the paper trail runs out, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visits scientists who are using DNA analysis to trace ancestral roots. With results in hand he meets with leading historians of the slave trade and discovers more fascinating details about his own ancestry. Finally, Professor Gates and a guest journey to Africa, where they visit the port from which the guest’s patrilineal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The challenge of genealogical research is even more evident as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. continues back through the Colonial period of American history in this program. The film takes us on a journey to fill in the family trees of each of the series participants, through war service records and various records of property during slavery's apogee—including inventories, sales, or gifts of slaves. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census—the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property—to trace his subjects’ lineages through Reconstruction. A vein that continues throughout the series is Gates'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Imagine a world in which gospel, the blues, jazz, R & B, and rock 'n' roll didn't exist. These indigenous American musical forms are the product of, and a moving expression of the African American experience. Musical geniuses and innovators like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, B.B. King, and Jimi Hendrix turned individual and collective histories of suffering and injustice into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: Listening to our Past is a piecing together of the family histories of four of the series participants. The episode explores the post-World War I “Great Migration” of African-Americans from the South to northern cities like Detroit and Chicago, as well as those who stayed in the South during the period of Jim Crow segregation. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. also begins an intriguing examination of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: From the top of Everest to the deepest recesses of previously unexplored caves, from the heart of the sea to the far reaches of space, African American explorers and adventurers have helped chart the unknown, push the boundaries of the frontier, scale the heights, and shoot for the stars. With profiles of courageous and pioneering figures like Arctic explorer Matthew Alexander Henson, the Lewis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRMiller, Adrian
Summary: "Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery has gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't just eatingit; they're also reading books and articles and watching TV shows about it. But why is it, asks Adrian Miller--admitted 'cuehead and longtime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.76 MILSummary: This program uses in-depth interviews with two generations of five African families now living in the Denver area to explore the dynamic process that is ethnic identity. Having emigrated from Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, the families bring unique traditions to a shared experience: life in America. The interviews reveal the hopes of the first generation for the second, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Nuurali, Siman
Summary: This popular West African tale follows the events of the famous race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NUUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NUU (Graphic Novel)Harper, Judith E.
Summary: Portrays the treatment and struggles of African Americans during the Revolutionary War and their contributions to the war effort.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 HARMoon, Elaine Latzman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 MOOSummary: Through centuries of suffering, slavery, inequality, discrimination, segregation, and racist violence, African Americans have endured, resisted, fought, and, increasingly over time, won many battles. These victories were propelled by a groundswell of grassroots action, but they were also motivated and organized by courageous and inspirational leadership. Journalists, abolitionists, educators,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018