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Achebe, Chinua. Buchhart, Dieter French, Howard W. Richards, Todd Terry, Bryant Twitty, MichaelSummary: "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 FRERichards, 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 RICBuchhart, 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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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 ACHTerry, Bryant
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