Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

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Futures of Black Power: Reimagining the Black Past

This book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle. In essays interspersed with oral history interviews, leading scholars look at how we study the past and suggest new ways historians can recognize Black Power and Black radicalism in the future.

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Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa

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Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity

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The German Joyce

Opening a new dimension of Joycean scholarship, this book provides the premier study of Joyce's impact on German-language literature and literary criticism in the twentieth century.

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The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World: Mythic History and Ritual Order

This book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily life through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices.

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Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millennium

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Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians

Explores Seminole and Miccosukee culture through information provided by archaeology, ethnography, historical documents, and the oral histories of the Indians

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Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture

Taking a close look at Zora Neale Hurston's historical and literary contexts, this book investigates why Hurston's writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be reclaimed and appreciated years after her death.