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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
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Born in Blackness

By Howard W. French ,

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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
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Saltwater Slavery

By Stephanie E. Smallwood ,

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How to Love a Jamaican: Stories
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How to Love a Jamaican

By Alexia Arthurs ,

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Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
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Venus Noire

By Robin Mitchell ,

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Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
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Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas

By Cécile Fromont ,

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Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
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Undercurrents of Power

By Kevin Dawson ,

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Black Europe and the African Diaspora
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Black Europe and the African Diaspora

By Darlene Clark Hine (editor) , Trica Danielle Keaton (editor) , Stephen Small (editor)

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Bone
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Bone

By Yrsa Daley-Ward ,

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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Luisa Ossa (editor) , Debbie Lee-DiStefano (editor) ,

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Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
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Wicked Flesh

By Jessica Marie Johnson ,

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Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
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Searching for Zion

By Emily Raboteau ,

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Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London
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Settlers

By Jimi Famurewa ,

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Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
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Freedom's Children

By Ellen S. Levine ,

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Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
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Insignificant Things

By Matthew Francis Rarey ,

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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
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Freedom Dreams

By Robin D.G. Kelley ,

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