Onwuachi, Kwame
Summary: "A cookbook celebrating the food of the African diaspora, from Nigeria and Ethiopia to the Bronx, the Caribbean, and the American South, from the James Beard Award-winning author of Notes from a Young Black Chef"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 ONWSummary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFRFrench, Howard W.
Summary: "Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960.22 FREBlyden, Nemata Amelia
Summary: Bringing together accounts of the most significant ideas and milestones in Black history and culture, this important and thought-provoking book offers a bold and accessible overview of the history of the African continent and its peoples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 BLYChavis, Ben
Summary: "Authors affirm that the Transatlantic Slave Trade was the longest-running genocidal crime against humanity in world history, causing the death, enslavement, and suffering of approximately 25 million African people for centuries in the Western Hemisphere, and support the United Nation's Report citing concrete steps to address the continued harm suffered by people of African descent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: SelectBooks 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Jama-Everett, Ayize
Summary: "When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosarium Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOXGray, Jon
Summary: Ghetto Gastro, a Bronx-based creative and culinary collective, delivers a highly visual manifesto for living and eating to stimulate the mind, body, and heart, in a book that promotes Black excellence through recipes, art, and thought-provoking text. Predominantly plant-based recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 GRARichards, Todd
Summary: "Chef Todd Richards explores West African diaspora cooking in the Americas, spanning history from the slave trade through the Great Migration, with over 100 mouthwatering recipes and illuminating narratives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 RICSamuelsson, Marcus
Summary: It is long past time to recognize Black excellence in the culinary world the same way it has been celebrated in the worlds of music, sports, literature, film, and the arts. Black cooks and creators have led American culture forward with indelible contributions of artistry and ingenuity from the start, but Black authorship has been consistently erased from the story of American food. Now, in The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 SAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 SAMBuchhart, Dieter
Summary: "The artist's most inspired works in one volume. Jean-Michel Basquiat--artist and art world provocateur--took New York City by storm with his powerful and complex works that relentlessly engaged with charged sociopolitical issues, including race, police brutality, and structural inequity. In this important volume, devoted to an exhibition at the Brant Foundation in their newly opened Manhattan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Many descendants of enslaved people have little record of their family's ancestry. Follow one family's quest to discover their lost history and see how science and genealogy can help rebuild a family tree broken by slavery. Join filmmaker Byron Hurt at his extended family reunion as they celebrate the joy of family in the African diaspora and discover new details of their history that they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEEAchebe, Chinua.
Summary: A volume of seventeen essays explores various aspects of the author's life, including his childhood in colonial Nigeria, encounters with the African-American diaspora, his family life, and the symbolism of Barack Obama's election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ACHEBE, CHINUA ACHJohnson, J. J.
Summary: In two of the most renowned and historic venues in Harlem, Alexander Smalls and JJ Johnson created a unique take on the Afro-Asian-American flavor profile. Their foundation was a collective three decades of traveling the African diaspora, meeting and eating with chefs of color, and researching the wide reach of a truly global cuisine; their inspiration was how African, Asian, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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Summary: "A groundbreaking cookbook from beloved chef-activist Bryant Terry, drawing from African, Afro-Caribbean, and Southern food to create over 100 enticing vegan dishes. Rising star chef and food activist Bryant Terry is known for his simple, creative, and delicious vegan dishes inspired by African American cooking. In this landmark cookbook, he remixes foods of the African diaspora to create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 TERTwitty, Michael
Summary: "The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022