Africa in My Blood
Title | Africa in My Blood PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Goodall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Covering the years 1934 to 1966, this revealing self-portrait by one of the most remarkable women of our time recounts, through her letters to friends and family, Goodall's enduring love affair with the "dark continent." 16-page photo insert.
Africa in My Blood
Title | Africa in My Blood PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Goodall |
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ISBN | 9780618065967 |
Knowledge in the Blood
Title | Knowledge in the Blood PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan D. Jansen |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0804761949 |
Discusses how white South African students learn and confront their Apartheid past, and explores how this knowledge transforms both the students and the author, the first black dean of an historically white university.
Ghosts in Our Blood
Title | Ghosts in Our Blood PDF eBook |
Author | Jan R. Carew |
Publisher | |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Written from the basis of the Caribbean heritage they shared, the author discusses conversations with Malcolm X regarding internationalist vision, a trip to Mecca, travels throughout Africa, the Black expatriate community in London, and Malcolm's Grenadian and Garveyite mother.
The Cooking Gene
Title | The Cooking Gene PDF eBook |
Author | Michael W. Twitty |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2018-07-31 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0062876570 |
2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts
Blood Stains
Title | Blood Stains PDF eBook |
Author | Khady |
Publisher | Uncut/Voices Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Africans |
ISBN | 9783981386301 |
Blood Stains, a best-seller in France, is a Diaspora memoir about growing up in a traditional family in Senegal and emigration to Paris. Its feisty protagonist, Khady, suffers genital mutilation at age seven, a brutal rite that entails lifelong distress, sexual trauma and harrowing childbirths. Married off at thirteen to a man two decades older, the teenager bears five children, and, as a battered wife, blows the whistle on an immigrant community that serves men's interests. Not content to remain a victim, however, the young woman fights for education, earns an independent living and becomes an activist. Her courageous battle against FGM as founder and president of the European Network brings her to the U.N. to urge international support.
In the Shadow of Man
Title | In the Shadow of Man PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Goodall |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780618056767 |
The classic study of primates.