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  • Bringing together our collective stories

    Bringing together our collective stories The African Courier: The International Magazine Published in Germany October/November 2012 Gyavira Lasana The second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey took place at Barnard College in New York City recently. Our New York-based contributing editor Gyavira Lasana reports on the convention, which focused on…

  • Josephine Baker: A Chanteuse and a Fighter

    Josephine Baker: A Chanteuse and a Fighter The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (2010) 18 pages Konomi Ara Tokyo University of Foreign Studies This excerpt is from her newly-published biography of Josephine Baker, “A Fighting Diva.” It tells the intriguing story of Baker’s travels to Japan, her close friendship with the Japanese…

  • Han Suyin Dies; Wrote Sweeping Fiction

    Han Suyin Dies; Wrote Sweeping Fiction The New York Times 2012-11-05 Margalit Fox Han Suyin, a physician and author known for writing the sweeping novel that became the Hollywood film “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” and for her outspoken championing of China under Mao Zedong, died on Friday at her home in Lausanne, Switzerland. As…

  • Han Suyin’s Many-Splendored World

    Han Suyin’s Many-Splendored World The New York Times 1985-01-25 Georgia Dullea Being remembered as the author of  ”A Many-Splendored Thing,” the semiautobiographical love story of a Eurasian physician and a British journalist in Hong Kong, which inspired a sentimental movie and an even more sentimental song, is a bore, says Han Suyin, 33 years and…

  • Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics

    Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics Peter Lang 2008 261 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-09-3 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-04-8 Peter Burke University of Cambridge Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke Centre for Latin American Studies University of Cambridge Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian,…

  • Roles of a Lifetime | Halle Berry

    Roles of a Lifetime | Halle Berry The New York Times Magazine 2012-10-20 Joyce Maynard It’s 10 in the morning, and already Halle Berry is being chased, though a better word for what’s going on might be “hunted.” Considering this, the Oscar-winning actress — one of the stars of the film “Cloud Atlas” — makes…

  • Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves

    Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves Farrar, Straus and Giroux an imprint of Macmillan 2012-10-16 352 pages Hardback ISBN-10: 0374299560; ISBN-13: 978-0374299569 Henry Wiencek Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek’s eloquent, persuasive book—based on new…

  • Ai, a Steadfast Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62

    Ai, a Steadfast Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 The New York Times 2010-03-27 Margalit Fox The prominent American poet Ai, whose work — known for its raw power, jagged edges and unflinching examination of violence and despair — stood as a damning indictment of American society, died on March 20 in Stillwater,…

  • Double Vision

    Poet Pauline Johnson enthralled Victorian theatregoers with a stereotype-smashing spin on her Mohawk-English heritage. Along the way, she became Canada’s first postmodern celebrity

  • The nation’s poet

    The nation’s poet The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Personal Journeys 2012-10-06 Rosalind Bentley, Arts and Culture writer Personal Journeys is a new weekly feature for readers who like good writing and good story-telling The National Book Festival along the Mall in Washington is thronged with readers and authors who’ve come to revel in the written word on…