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  • No Man’s Nightingale: An Inspector Wexford Novel Scribner (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) November 2013 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781476744483 Paperback ISBN: 9781476747132 Ruth Rendell A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. A single mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she…

  • Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory University of Georgia Press 2015-05-15 136 pages 8 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-3802-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4724-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4832-2 Barbara McCaskill, Associate Professor of English and co-director of the Civil Rights Digital Library University of Georgia How William…

  • The Michif language—spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada—is considered an “impossible language” since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and…

  • Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems Graywolf Press 2010-08-31 192 pages Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55597-567-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55597-650-7 Thomas Sayers Ellis, co-Founder The Dark Room Collective, Cambridge, Massachusetts The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning The Maverick Room Skin, Inc. is Thomas Sayers…

  • Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Graywolf Press 2009-02-06 28 pages Trim Size: 4 5/8 x 6 1/2 ISBN: 978-1-55597-545-6 Elizabeth Alexander Available in an elegant chapbook, Elizabeth Alexander’s historic poem, read at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the…

  • A True History Full of Romance: Mixed marriages and ethnic identity in Dutch art, news media, and popular culture (1883–1955) by Marga Altena (review) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2014 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2014.0039 Eveline Buchheim, Researcher NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Altena, Marga, A…

  • Poet Natasha Trethewey Explores Public and Personal Histories of Race in America The Aspen Institute 2015-01-13 Caroline Tory, Program Coordinator Aspen Words, Aspen Colorado On a recent winter night, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey addressed an Aspen Words audience in Aspen, CO, on the intersection between art and activism. “[I am] a poet interested not…

  • Christmas without Ramadan Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-09 Zena F. Itani I’ve never really liked Christmas. It was the most forced family event of the year, defined by spectacular displays of anxiety from my mother and bad temper served up by my father, always in time for guests. While that doesn’t sound much different from others’…

  • Young Artists: Saya Woolfalk W November 2008 Timothy McCahill For the last two years Saya Woolfalk has practically lived in No Place, the futuristic work she is creating through painting, sculpture and video. So it’s not surprising that when she talks about it, the line between fact and fiction seems a little fuzzy. More than…

  • Al Madrigal’s New Special ‘Half Like Me’ Is What Latinos Have Been Waiting For The Huffington Post 2015-01-13 Ana Maria Benedetti Al Madrigal goes on a journey of self-discovery… starting with how to pronounce his own name. In his new one-hour special “Half Like Me,” premiering on Fusion on January 22, The Daily Show’s senior…