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Mandela : my prisoner, my friend / by Brand, Christo.; Brand, Christo.Doing life with Mandela.; Jones, Barbara,1944 November 29-;: Subjects: Brand, Cristo; Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013; Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013; African National Congress; Pollsmoor Prison (South Africa); Correctional personnel; Political prisoners;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Cave of bones : a true story of discovery, adventure, and human origins / by Berger, Lee R.,author.; Hawks, John(John David),author.;: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index."This thrilling book takes the reader into South African caves to discover fossil remains that reframe the human family tree"--; Subjects: Homo naledi.; Human beings; Human remains (Archaeology);; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The message / by Coates, Ta-Nehisi,author.;: "Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories - our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking - expose and distort our realities. The first of the book's three intertwining essays is set in Dakar, Senegal. Despite being raised as a strict Afrocentrist - and named for Nubian pharaoh - Coates had never set foot on the African continent until now. He roams the "steampunk" city of "old traditions and new machinery," meeting with strangers and dining with local writers who quiz him in French about African American politics. But everywhere he goes he feels as if he's in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and a mythic kingdom in his mind, the pan-African homeland he was raised to believe was the origin and destiny for all black people. Finally he travels to the slave castles off the coast and touches the ocean that carried his ancestors away in chains - and has his own reckoning with the legacy of the Afrocentric dream. Back in the USA he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he explores a different mythology, this one enforced on its subjects by the state. He enters the world of the teacher whose job is threatened for teaching one of Coates's own books and discovers a community of mostly white supporters who were transformed and even radicalized by the stories they discovered in the "racial reckoning" of 2020. But he also explores the backlash to this reckoning and the deeper myths and stories of the community - a capital of the confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over the its public squares. In Palestine, the longest of the essays, he discovers the devastating gap between the narratives we've accepted and the clashing reality of life on the ground. He meets with activists and dissidents, Israelis and Palestinians - the old, who remember their dispossessions on two continents, and the young who have only known struggle and disillusionment. He travels into Jerusalem, the heart of Zionist mythology, and to the occupied territories, where he sees the reality the myth is meant to hide. It is this hidden story that draws him in and profoundly changes him - and makes the war that would soon come all the more devastating"--; Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Coates, Ta-Nehisi; African American journalists; Journalists;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake / by Miles, Tiya,1970-author.;: Includes bibliographical references and index."Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter, Ruth, embroidered this history on the bag -- including Rose's message that "It be filled with my Love always." Historian Tiya Miles carefully follows faint archival traces back to Charleston to find Rose in the kitchen where she may have packed the sack for Ashley. From Rose's last resourceful gift to her daughter, Miles then follows the paths their lives and the lives of so many like them took to write a unique, innovative history of the lived experience of slavery in the United States. The contents of the sack -- a tattered dress, handfuls of pecans, a braid of hair, "my Love always" -- speak volumes and open up a window on Rose and Ashley's world. As she follows Ashley's journey, Miles metaphorically "unpacks" the sack, deepening its emotional resonance and revealing the meanings and significance of everything it contained. These include the story of enslaved labor's role in the cotton trade and apparel crafts and the rougher cotton "negro cloth" that was left for enslaved people to wear; the role of the pecan in nutrition, survival, and southern culture; the significance of hair to Black women and of locks of hair in the nineteenth century; and an exploration of Black mothers' love and the place of emotion in history"--; Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Ashley (Enslaved person in South Carolina); Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942; African American women; African American women; Enslaved persons; Enslaved women; Enslaved women; Memory; Mothers and daughters.;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Rough Aunties. by Longinotto, Kim,film director.; Royal Anthropological Institute (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;: Originally produced by Royal Anthropological Institute in 2008.Jackie, Mildred, Eureka and Thuli are the women behind Bobbi Bear, a nonprofit organization based in Durban, South Africa, that counsels sexually abused children and works to bring their abusers to justice. Born out of recognition of cultural stigmas that discourage reporting abuse and inadequate methods of communicating with young victims, Bobbi Bear developed a method of letting children use teddy bears to explain their abuse. Since 1992, the multiracial staff has become the fearless and powerful voice for those victims who would otherwise continue to live in fear, powerless against their oppressors and ignored by the legal system.Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Social sciences.; African studies.; Foreign study.; Child welfare.; Human rights.; Sociology.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Current affairs.; Children.; Humanitarianism.; South Africa.; Africa.; Social justice.; Child abuse.;; unAPI
Kamala Harris / by Fuentes, Sarah.;: What did Kamala Harris do before she became the first woman to serve as a US vice president? And what will she do next?; Subjects: Biographies.; Readers (Publications); Harris, Kamala, 1964-; Vice-presidents; Women presidential candidates; African American women legislators; Women lawyers; South Asian American women;; Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2; unAPI
A penguin named Patience : a Hurricane Katrina rescue story / by Lewis, Suzanne,1954-; Anchin, Lisa.;: "Patience is a South African penguin living at New Orleans's Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. When the Aquarium is severely damaged during Hurricane Katrina, many animals are put in peril, including Patience and the other penguins. They must leave their home, and their penguin keeper, until it is restored"--Provided by publisher.LSC; Subjects: African penguin; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Animal rescue; Penguins;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Last train to Zona Verde : my ultimate African safari / by Theroux, Paul.;: A memoir about Paul Theroux and his journeys to Nambia, Angola and South Africa.LSC; Subjects: Theroux, Paul; Theroux, Paul; Theroux, Paul;; © c2013., McClelland & Stewart,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI

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