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251 relations: A Brief History of Seven Killings, A Gesture Life, A Many-Splendoured Thing, A Problem from Hell, A Sport of Nature, A. Van Jordan, Abigail Thernstrom, Abram L. Sachar, Adrian Matejka, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Adrienne Kennedy, Aké: The Years of Childhood, Alan Paton, Albert Murray (writer), Albie Sachs, Alex Haley, Alfred Cort Haddon, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, America in the King Years, An American Dilemma, Andrew Solomon, Annette Gordon-Reed, Anthony F. C. Wallace, Anthony Marra, Ari Shavit, Arnold Rampersad, Ashley Montagu, August Wilson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Basil Davidson, Beloved (novel), Black Like Me, Black Metropolis, Brent Staples, Breyten Breytenbach, C-SPAN, Carleton Mabee, Carol Beckwith, Chang-Rae Lee, Charles Duguid, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Civil rights movement, Claude Brown, Cleveland, Cloudsplitter, Colson Whitehead, Cry, the Beloved Country, Culture, Dan T. Carter, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, ..., David Brion Davis, David Levering Lewis, David W. Blight, David Wyman, Derek Walcott, Dolores Kendrick, Donald Downs, Dorothy West, E. Franklin Frazier, E. R. Braithwaite, Earth and High Heaven, Edith Anisfield Wolf, Edward P. Jones, Edward Said, Edwidge Danticat, Elizabeth Alexander (poet), Erich Kahler, Ernest J. Gaines, Esi Edugyan, Eugene Genovese, Eugene Gloria, F.X. Toole, Farley Mowat, Florestan Fernandes, Gail Sheehy, Geoffrey Ward, George Lamming, George Lipsitz, George M. Fredrickson, Gilberto Freyre, Gordon Parks, Graham Hancock, Great House (novel), Gunnar Myrdal, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gwethalyn Graham, Half of a Yellow Sun, Half-Blood Blues, Han Suyin, Harold Foote Gosnell, Harold Isaacs, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Hidden Figures (book), Horace R. Cayton Jr., Hugh Honour, Infidel: My Life, Invisible Man, Ira Berlin, Isabel Allende, Isabel Wilkerson, J. C. Furnas, Jack Johnson (boxer), Jamaica Kincaid, Jamake Highwater, James M. McPherson, James McBride (writer), James Silver, Jay Wright (poet), Jericho Brown, Jill Lepore, John Collier (sociologist), John Edgar Wideman, John Haynes Holmes, John Henry Days, John Hersey, John Hope Franklin, John Howard Griffin, John Lewis (civil rights leader), John Milton Yinger, Jonathan Kozol, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Julian Huxley, Junot Díaz, Kamila Shamsie, Karan Mahajan, Kevin Powers, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laird Hunt, Langston Hughes, Laurens van der Post, Léon Poliakov, Lee Rainwater, Leopold Infeld, Lillian Faderman, Look (American magazine), Louis Adamic, Louis Leo Snyder, Louis Lomax, Louise Erdrich, Lucille Clifton, Lucy Dawidowicz, Maasai people, Madison Smartt Bell, Malcolm X, Margot Lee Shetterly, Marija Gimbutas, Marilyn Chin, Marilyn Nelson, Marlon James (novelist), Martha Collins (poet), Martin Luther King Jr., Mary Helen Stefaniak, Mary Morris (writer), Maurice Samuel, Maxine Hong Kingston, Melissa Fay Greene, Michi Weglyn, Mike D'Orso, Milton Gordon, Mohsin Hamid, Nadine Gordimer, Nam Le, Nancy Oestreich Lurie, Nathan Glazer, Nicole Krauss, Norman Cohn, On Beauty, Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Patterson, Oscar Lewis, Pat Conroy, Paule Marshall, People of the Deer, Peter Ho Davies, Peter Sutton (anthropologist), Philanthropy, Phillip V. Tobias, Poet, Quincy Jones, Racism, Ralph Ellison, Raphael Patai, Raul Hilberg, Reetika Vazirani, Reginald Gibbons, Richard Borshay Lee, Richard Kluger, Richard Rodriguez, Rita Dove, Robert Coles, Roi Ottley, Ronald Takaki, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Russell Banks, Samantha Power, Sandra Cisneros, Saturday Review (U.S. magazine), Scott Reynolds Nelson, Scottsboro Boys, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Sholem Asch, Simon Schama, South African Institute of Race Relations, St. Clair Drake, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen L. Carter, Steven Pinker, Taylor Branch, The Abandonment of the Jews, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Boat (short stories collection), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Cleveland Foundation, The Color of Water, The Dew Breaker, The Emperor of Ocean Park, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, The Hemingses of Monticello, The Known World, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Warmth of Other Suns, The Water Is Wide (book), The Yellow Birds, Theodosius Dobzhansky, To Sir, With Love (novel), Toi Derricotte, Tommy Kiernan, Toni Morrison, Trevor Huddleston, Tyehimba Jess, United States, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Vernon Bartlett, Vernon Jordan, Vine Deloria Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919–1963, W. Grant Dahlstrom, Wallace Stegner, Walter F. Morris Jr., Walter Mosley, William Barton Wright, William Demby, William H. Tucker, William Julius Wilson, William Melvin Kelley, Wilson Harris, Wole Soyinka, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Zadie Smith, Zora Neale Hurston. Expand index (201 more) »
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James.
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A Gesture Life
A Gesture Life is a novel written by Chang-Rae Lee which takes the form of a narrative of an elderly medical-supply salesman named Doc Hata, who deals with everyday life in a small town in the United States called Bedley Run, and who remembers treating Korean comfort women for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
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A Many-Splendoured Thing
A Many-Splendoured Thing is a novel by Han Suyin that was a bestseller when first published in London in 1952 by Jonathan Cape.
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A Problem from Hell
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide is a book by Samantha Power, at that time Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which explores America's understanding of, response to, and inaction on genocides in the 20th century from the Armenian genocide to the "ethnic cleansings" of the Kosovo War.
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A Sport of Nature
A Sport of Nature is a 1987 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.
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A. Van Jordan
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Abigail Thernstrom
Abigail Thernstrom (born 1936) is an American political scientist and a leading conservative scholar on race relations.
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Abram L. Sachar
Abram Leon Sachar (February 15, 1899 – July 24, 1993) was an American historian and founding president of Brandeis University.
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Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka (born in Nuremberg, Germany) is an African-American poet.
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Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is an American journalist whose works focus on the marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc.
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Adrienne Kennedy
Adrienne Kennedy (born September 13, 1931) is an African-American playwright.
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Aké: The Years of Childhood
Aké: The Years of Childhood is a memoir by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka that was first published in 1981.
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Alan Paton
Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.
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Albert Murray (writer)
Albert L. Murray (May 12, 1916 – August 18, 2013) was an American literary and jazz critic, novelist, essayist and biographer.
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Albie Sachs
Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs (born 30 January 1935) is an activist and a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
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Alex Haley
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers.
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Alfred Cort Haddon
Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS, FRGS (24 May 1855 – 20 April 1940, Cambridge) was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist.
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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned is a 1997 crime novel by Walter Mosley.
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America in the King Years
America in the King Years is a three-volume history of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch, which he wrote between 1982 and 2006.
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An American Dilemma
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish Nobel-laureate economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon (born October 30, 1963) is a writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London.
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Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958) is an American historian and law professor.
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Anthony F. C. Wallace
Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace (April 15, 1923 – October 5, 2015) was a Canadian-American anthropologist who specialized in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois.
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Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra is an American fiction writer.
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Ari Shavit
Ari Shavit (born November 26, 1957) is an Israeli reporter and writer.
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Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad (born 13 November 1941) is a biographer and literary critic, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the US in 1965.
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Ashley Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28, 1905November 26, 1999), previously known as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.
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August Wilson
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born Ayaan Hirsi Magan, 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, author, scholar and former politician.
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Basil Davidson
Basil Risbridger Davidson MC (9 November 1914 – 9 July 2010) was a British historian, writer and Africanist, particularly knowledgeable on the subject of Portuguese Africa prior to the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
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Beloved (novel)
Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison.
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Black Like Me
Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by white journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under Racial Segregation.
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Black Metropolis
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, authored by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Jr., is an anthropological and sociological study of the African-American urban experience in the first half of the 20th century.
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Brent Staples
Brent Staples (born 1951 in Chester, Pennsylvania) is an author and an editorial writer for the New York Times.
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Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach (born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government.
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C-SPAN
C-SPAN, an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service.
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Carleton Mabee
Carleton Mabee (December 24, 1914 – December 18, 2014) was an American writer who won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse.
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Carol Beckwith
Carol Beckwith (born November 12, 1945) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa, most notably in partnership with Australian photographer Angela Fisher.
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Chang-Rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University.
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Charles Duguid
Charles Duguid (6 April 1884 – 5 December 1986) was a Scottish-born medical practitioner and Aboriginal rights campaigner who recorded his experience working among the Australian Aborigines in a number of books.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (was born on 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories, and nonfiction.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Claude Brown
Claude Brown (February 23, 1937 – February 2, 2002) is the author of Manchild in the Promised Land, published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem.
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Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.
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Cloudsplitter
Cloudsplitter is a 1998 historical novel by Russell Banks relating the story of abolitionist John Brown.
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Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist.
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton, published in 1948.
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Culture
Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.
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Dan T. Carter
Dan T. Carter is an American historian.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, sociologist, and diplomat.
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David Brion Davis
David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world.
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David Levering Lewis
David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an American Historian; he is the Julius Silver University Professor, and the Professor of History at New York University.
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David W. Blight
David William Blight (born 1949) is a professor of American History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.
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David Wyman
David Sword Wyman (6 March 1929 – 14 March 2018) was the author of several books on the responses of the United States to Nazi Germany's persecution of and programs to exterminate Jews.
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Derek Walcott
Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.
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Dolores Kendrick
Dolores Kendrick (September 7, 1927 – November 7, 2017) was an American poet, and served as the second Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia.
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Donald Downs
Donald Alexander Downs (born December 2, 1948) is an American political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison known for his work on the First Amendment.
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Dorothy West
Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was a novelist and short story writer during the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
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E. Franklin Frazier
Edward Franklin Frazier (September 24, 1894 – May 17, 1962), was an American sociologist and author, publishing as E. Franklin Frazier.
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E. R. Braithwaite
Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (June 27, 1912 – December 12, 2016), publishing as E. R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher and diplomat best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people.
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Earth and High Heaven
Earth and High Heaven was a 1944 novel by Gwethalyn Graham.
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Edith Anisfield Wolf
Edith Karolyn Anisfield Wolf (August 2, 1889 – January 23, 1963) was an American poet and philanthropist from Cleveland.
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Edward P. Jones
Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer.
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Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد وديع سعيد,; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.
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Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat (born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer.
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Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
Elizabeth Alexander (born May 30, 1962) is an American poet, essayist, playwright, and the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2018.
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Erich Kahler
Erich von Kahler (October 14, 1885 – June 28, 1970) was a mid-twentieth-century European-American literary scholar, essayist, and teacher known for works such as The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry into the Transformation of Man (1957).
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Ernest J. Gaines
Ernest James Gaines (born January 15, 1933) is an African-American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese.
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Esi Edugyan
Esi Edugyan (born 1978) is a Canadian novelist.
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Eugene Genovese
Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 – September 26, 2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery.
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Eugene Gloria
Eugene Gloria (born 1957) is a Filipino-born American poet.
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F.X. Toole
F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd (1930 – September 2, 2002).
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Farley Mowat
Farley McGill Mowat, (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist.
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Florestan Fernandes
Florestan Fernandes (July 22, 1920 – August 10, 1995) was a Brazilian sociologist and politician.
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Gail Sheehy
Gail Sheehy (born Gail Henion on November 27, 1937) is an American author, journalist, and lecturer.
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Geoffrey Ward
Geoffrey Champion Ward (born 1940) is an American editor, author, historian and writer of scripts for American history documentaries for public television.
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George Lamming
George Lamming (born 8 June 1927) is a Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet and an important figure in Caribbean literature, who first won critical acclaim with his debut novel, In the Castle of My Skin (1953).
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George Lipsitz
George Lipsitz is an American Studies scholar and Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of over half a dozen books, including The Possessive Investment in Whiteness.
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George M. Fredrickson
George M. Fredrickson (July 16, 1934 – February 25, 2008) was an American Edgar E. Robinson Professor of U.S. History at Stanford University from 1984 until the time of his retirement in 2002.
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Gilberto Freyre
Gilberto de Mello Freyre (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman, born in Recife, Northeast Brazil.
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Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans—and in glamour photography.
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Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock (born 2 August 1950) is a British author and reporter.
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Great House (novel)
Great House is the third novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss, published on October 12, 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company.
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Gunnar Myrdal
Karl Gunnar Myrdal (6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher.
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Gwethalyn Graham
Gwethalyn Graham (January 18, 1913 – November 25, 1965) was a Canadian writer and activist, whose 1944 novel Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian book to reach number one on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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Half-Blood Blues
Half-Blood Blues (styled without the hyphen in the UK edition) is a fictional work written by Canadian writer Esi Edugyan, and first published in June 2011 by Serpent’s Tail.
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Han Suyin
Han Suyin (12 September 1917 (some sources say: 1916)2 November 2012) was the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou.
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Harold Foote Gosnell
Harold Foote Gosnell (December 24, 1896 – January 9, 1997) was an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties.
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Harold Isaacs
Harold Robert Isaacs (1910–1986) was an American journalist and political scientist.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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Hidden Figures (book)
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Margot Lee Shetterly.
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Horace R. Cayton Jr.
Horace R. Cayton Jr. (April 12, 1903 – January 21, 1970) was a prominent American sociologist, newspaper columnist, and author who specialized in studies of working-class black Americans, particularly in mid-20th-century Chicago.
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Hugh Honour
Hugh Honour FRSL (26 September 1927 – 19 May 2016) was a British art historian, known for his writing partnership with John Fleming.
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Infidel: My Life
Infidel (2006/published in English 2007) is the autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-Dutch activist and politician.
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952.
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Ira Berlin
Ira Berlin (May 27, 1941 – June 5, 2018) was an American historian, professor of history at the University of Maryland, and former president of Organization of American Historians.
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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende (born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer.
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Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an American journalist, and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.
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J. C. Furnas
Joseph Chamberlain Furnas (1906–2001) was an American freelance writer.
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Jack Johnson (boxer)
John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915).
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Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid (born May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer.
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Jamake Highwater
Jamake Highwater, born as Jackie Marks, and also known as Jay or J Marks (14 February 1931–June 3, 2001), was an American writer and journalist of eastern European Jewish ancestry,, Indian Country Today, 19 June 2015 who from the late 1960s claimed to be of Cherokee and Native American ancestry.
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James M. McPherson
James M. "Jim" McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University.
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James McBride (writer)
James McBride (born September 11, 1957) is an American writer and musician.
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James Silver
James W. Silver (June 28, 1907 – July 25, 1988) was a historian, author of Mississippi: The Closed Society, and professor at the University of Mississippi and later at the University of Notre Dame and the University of South Florida.
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Jay Wright (poet)
Jay Wright (born May 25, 1935) is an African-American poet, playwright, and essayist.
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Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown, born Nelson Demery, III, is an American poet.
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Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore (born August 27, 1966) is an American historian.
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John Collier (sociologist)
John Collier (May 4, 1884 – May 8, 1968), a sociologist and writer, was an American social reformer and Native American advocate.
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John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American writer, professor emeritus at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.
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John Haynes Holmes
John Haynes Holmes (November 29, 1879 – April 3, 1964) was a prominent Unitarian minister, pacifist, and co-founder of the NAACP and the ACLU.
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John Henry Days
John Henry Days is a 2001 novel by American author Colson Whitehead.
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John Hersey
John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist.
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John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association.
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John Howard Griffin
John Howard Griffin (June 16, 1920 – September 9, 1980) was an American journalist and author from Texas, who wrote about racial equality.
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John Lewis (civil rights leader)
John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader.
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John Milton Yinger
John Milton Yinger (July 6, 1916 – July 28, 2011) was an American sociologist who was president of the American Sociological Association 1976–1977.
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Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol (born September 5, 1936) is an American writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States.
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.
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Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer (February 24, 1952 – December 30, 2016) was a Puerto Rican American author.
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Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist.
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Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review.
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Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie (born 13 August 1973) is a British Pakistani novelist.
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Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan (April 24, 1984) is an Indian-American novelist, essayist, and critic.
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Kevin Powers
Kevin Powers (born July 11, 1980) is an American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah (born May 8, 1954) is a British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history.
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Laird Hunt
Laird Hunt (April 3, 1968) is an American writer, translator and academic.
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
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Laurens van der Post
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE (13 December 1906 – 16 December 1996), was a 20th-century Afrikaner author, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of government, close friend of Prince Charles, godfather of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist.
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Léon Poliakov
Léon Poliakov (Лев Поляков; 25 November 1910, Saint Petersburg – 8 December 1997, Orsay) writer of "The Aryan Myth" was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and antisemitism.
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Lee Rainwater
Lee Rainwater (7 January 1928 – 4 July 2015) was an American sociologist.
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Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld (20 August 1898 – 15 January 1968) was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950).
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Lillian Faderman
Lillian Faderman (born July 18, 1940) is an American historian whose books on lesbian history and LGBT history have earned critical praise and awards.
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Look (American magazine)
Look was a bi-weekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles.
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Louis Adamic
Louis Adamic (Alojz Adamič) (23 March 1898 – 4 September 1951) was a Slovene-American author and translator, mostly known for writing about and advocating for ethnic diversity of America.
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Louis Leo Snyder
Louis Leo Snyder (4 July 1907 – 25 November 1993) was an American scholar, who witnessed first hand the Nazi mass rallies held from 1923 on in Germany; and wrote about them from New York in his Hitlerism: The Iron Fist in Germany published in 1932 under the pseudonym Nordicus.
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Louis Lomax
Louis Emanuel Lomax (August 16, 1922 – July 30, 1970) was an African-American journalist and author.
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Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.
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Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 in Depew, New York – February 13, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York.
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Lucy Dawidowicz
Lucy Schildkret Dawidowicz (June 16, 1915 – December 5, 1990) was an American historian and writer.
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Maasai people
Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
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Madison Smartt Bell
Madison Smartt Bell (born August 1, 1957 Nashville, Tennessee) is an American novelist.
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X (19251965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
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Margot Lee Shetterly
Margot Lee Shetterly (born 1969) is an American non-fiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups.
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Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas (Marija Gimbutienė; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian-American archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe.
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Marilyn Chin
Marilyn Chin (陈美玲) is a prominent Chinese American poet and writer, an activist and feminist, an editor and Professor of English.
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Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson (born April 26, 1946) is an American poet, translator, and children's book author.
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Marlon James (novelist)
Marlon James (born 24 November 1970) is a Jamaican writer.
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Martha Collins (poet)
Martha Collins (born 1940) is a poet, translator, and editor.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.
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Mary Helen Stefaniak
Mary Helen Stefaniak is an American writer.
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Mary Morris (writer)
Mary Morris (born May 14, 1947 in Chicago) is an American author and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Maurice Samuel
Maurice Samuel (February 8, 1895 – May 4, 1972) was a Romanian-born British and American novelist, translator and lecturer.
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston (born Maxine Ting Ting Hong;Huntley, E. D. (2001). Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion. p. 1. October 27, 1940) is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962.
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Melissa Fay Greene
Melissa Fay Greene (born December 30, 1952) is an American nonfiction author.
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Michi Weglyn
Michi Nishiura Weglyn (November 29, 1926 – April 25, 1999) was the author of the book Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, which fueled a movement leading to reparations for Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
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Mike D'Orso
' Mike D'Orso (born October 12, 1953) is an American author and journalist based in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Milton Gordon
Milton Myron Gordon (born October 3, 1918) is an American sociologist.
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Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid (محسن حمید; born 23 July 1971) is a Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant.
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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Nam Le
Nam Le (born 1978) is a Vietnamese-born Australian writer, who won the Dylan Thomas Prize for his book The Boat, a collection of short stories.
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Nancy Oestreich Lurie
Nancy Oestreich Lurie (January 29, 1924 in Milwaukee, WI; - May 13, 2017) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the study of North American Indian history and culture.
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Nathan Glazer
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Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017).
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Norman Cohn
Norman Rufus Colin Cohn FBA (12 January 1915 – 31 July 2007) was a British academic, historian and writer who spent 14 years as a professorial fellow and as Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex.
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On Beauty
On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on Howards End by E.M. Forster.
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
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Orlando Patterson
Orlando Patterson (born 5 June 1940) is a Jamaican-born American historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race in the United States, as well as the sociology of development.
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Oscar Lewis
Oscar Lewis, born Lefkowitz (December 25, 1914 – December 16, 1970) was an American anthropologist.
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Pat Conroy
Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs.
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Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author, best known for her 1959 novel Brown Girl, Brownstones.
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People of the Deer
People of the Deer (published in 1952, revised in 1975) is Canadian author Farley Mowat's first book, and brought him literary recognition.
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Peter Ho Davies
Peter Ho Davies (born 30 August 1966) is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.
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Peter Sutton (anthropologist)
Peter Sutton FASSA (born 1946) is an Australian social anthropologist and linguist who has, over a period of almost 40 years (since 1969), contributed to: recording Australian Aboriginal languages; promoting Australian Aboriginal art; mapping Australian Aboriginal cultural landscapes; and increasing societies' general understanding of contemporary Australian Aboriginal social structures and systems of land tenure.
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Philanthropy
Philanthropy means the love of humanity.
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Phillip V. Tobias
Phillip Vallentine Tobias FRS (14 October 1925 – 7 June 2012) was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
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Poet
A poet is a person who creates poetry.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.
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Racism
Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.
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Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar.
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Raphael Patai
Raphael Patai (Hebrew רפאל פטאי) (November 22, 1910 − July 20, 1996), born Ervin György Patai, was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist.
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Raul Hilberg
Raul Hilberg (June 2, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was an Austrian-born Jewish-American political scientist and historian.
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Reetika Vazirani
Reetika Gina Vazirani (9 August 1962 – 16 July 2003) was an Indian/American immigrant poet and educator.
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Reginald Gibbons
Reginald Gibbons (born 1947) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, and Professor of English and Classics at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for the Writing Arts there.
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Richard Borshay Lee
Richard Borshay Lee (born 1937) is a Canadian anthropologist.
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Richard Kluger
Richard Kluger (born 1934) is an American author who has won a Pulitzer Prize.
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Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez (born July 31, 1944) is an American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982), a narrative about his intellectual development.
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Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist.
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Robert Coles
Robert Coles (born October 12, 1929) is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University.
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Roi Ottley
Vincent Lushington "Roi" Ottley (August 2, 1906 — October 2, 1960) was an American journalist and writer.
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Ronald Takaki
Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki (April 12, 1939 – May 26, 2009) was an American academic, historian, ethnographer and author.
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips (born 1974 in New York City) is an American poet.
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Russell Banks
Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.
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Samantha Power
Samantha Jane Power (born September 21, 1970) is an Irish-born American academic, author, political critic, and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017.
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Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is a Mexican-American writer.
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Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)
Saturday Review, previously The Saturday Review of Literature, was an American weekly magazine established in 1924.
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
Scott Reynolds Nelson is the Georgia Athletics Association Professor of History at the University of Georgia.
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Scottsboro Boys
The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers, ages 13 to 20, accused in Alabama of raping two White American women on a train in 1931.
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Shirley Graham Du Bois
Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes.
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Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch (שלום אַש, Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.
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Simon Schama
Sir Simon Michael Schama, CBE, FRSL, FBA (born 13 February 1945) is an English historian specialising in art history, Dutch history, and French history.
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South African Institute of Race Relations
Established in 1929http://www.sairr.org.za/profile/ the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) is a research and policy organisation in South Africa.
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St. Clair Drake
John Gibbs St.
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Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.
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Stephen L. Carter
Stephen Lisle Carter (born October 26, 1954), Encyclopedia.com.
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Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author.
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Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian best known for his trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and much of the history of the American Civil Rights Movement.
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The Abandonment of the Jews
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945, published in 1984, is an influential book by David S. Wyman, former Josiah DuBois professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published in 1965, the result of a collaboration between human rights activist Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley.
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The Boat (short stories collection)
The Boat is a collection of short stories by the Vietnamese-Australian writer Nam Le, published in 2008.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) is a novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz.
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The Cleveland Foundation
Established in 1914, The Cleveland Foundation was the world's first community foundation.
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The Color of Water
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, is the autobiography and memoir of James McBride first published in 1995; it is also a tribute to his mother, whom he calls Mommy, or Ma.
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The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker is a novel by Edwidge Danticat, published in 2004.
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The Emperor of Ocean Park
The Emperor of Ocean Park is a 2002 novel by American author and law professor Stephen L. Carter.
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The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle is a 2015 book by Lillian Faderman chronicling the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from the 1950s to the early 21st century.
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The Hemingses of Monticello
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed.
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The Known World
The Known World is a 2003 historical novel by Edward P. Jones.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid, published in 2007.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) is a historical study of the Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award among other accolades.
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The Water Is Wide (book)
The Water Is Wide is a 1972 memoir by Pat Conroy and is based on his work as a teacher on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, which is called Yamacraw Island in the book.
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The Yellow Birds
The Yellow Birds is the debut novel from American writer, poet, and Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers.
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (Теодо́сій Григо́рович Добжа́нський; Феодо́сий Григо́рьевич Добржа́нский; January 25, 1900 – December 18, 1975) was a prominent Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the modern synthesis.
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To Sir, With Love (novel)
To Sir, With Love is a 1959 autobiographical novel by E. R. Braithwaite set in the East End of London.
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Toi Derricotte
Toi Derricotte (pronounced DARE-ah-cot) (born April 12, 1941) is an American poet and a professor of writing at University of Pittsburgh.
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Tommy Kiernan
Thomas Kiernan (20 October 1918 – 26 June 1991) was a Scottish footballer, who played in the Football League for Luton Town and Stoke City.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
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Trevor Huddleston
Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston (15 June 1913 – 20 April 1998) was an English Anglican bishop.
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Tyehimba Jess
Tyehimba Jess (born 1965 in Detroit) is an American poet.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
Urie Bronfenbrenner (April 29, 1917 – September 25, 2005) was a Russian-born American developmental psychologist who is most known for his ecological systems theory of child development.
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Vernon Bartlett
Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett, CBE (30 April 1894, Westbury, Wiltshire – 18 January 1983) was an English journalist, politician and author.
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Vernon Jordan
Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. (born August 15, 1935) is an American business executive and civil rights activist in the United States.
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Vine Deloria Jr.
Vine Victor Deloria Jr. (March 26, 1933 – November 13, 2005) was a Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist.
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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919–1963
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W. Grant Dahlstrom
William Grant Dahlstrom (1922–2006) was an American psychologist who worked on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
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Wallace Stegner
Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers".
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Walter F. Morris Jr.
Walter F. Morris Jr. is an American cultural preservationist.
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Walter Mosley
Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction.
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William Barton Wright
William Barton Wright (13 November 1828 – 7 May 1915) was an English mechanical engineer and Locomotive Superintendent of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) from 1875.
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William Demby
William Demby (December 25, 1922 – May 23, 2013) was an African American writer.
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William H. Tucker
William H. Tucker is an American psychologist.
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William Julius Wilson
William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist.
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William Melvin Kelley
William Melvin Kelley (November 1, 1937 – February 1, 2017) was an African-American novelist and short-story writer.
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Wilson Harris
Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (24 March 1921 – 8 March 2018) was a Guyanese writer.
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Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká,; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist.
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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is a book of short stories published in 1991 by San Antonio-based Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros.
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL (born 25 October 1975) is a contemporary British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, and published research on Haitian voodoo.
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