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1) Kibogo
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English
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"In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity. When a rogue priest is defrocked for fusing the gospels with the martyrdom of Kibogo, a fierce clash of cults ensues. Swirling with the heady smell of wet earth and flashes of acerbic humor, Mukasonga brings to life the vital mythologies that imbue the Rwandan...
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English
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New York Times Bestseller
Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck
Recipient of the American Book Award
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen...
Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck
Recipient of the American Book Award
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen...
Author
Language
English
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Rooted in a Chicana/Latina/indigenous geographic and cultural sensibility, the stories in flesh to bone are concerned with borders of all kinds--particularly the physical borders of the American Southwest-- and the potential for transformation and healing. The nine stories in write and rewrite myth from a woman's of view, as they tell stories of women and children whose lives are shaped by the social, political, ecological, and economic disruption...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
537 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which the heart of Africa was utterly transformed in the nineteenth century and the rainforest of the Congo River basin became one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Harms reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within...
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Publisher
The University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico investigates the tactics that Pueblo Indians used to negotiate Spanish colonization and the ways in which the negotiation of colonial power impacted Pueblo individuals and communities"--Provided by publisher.
6) Afterlives
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister Afiya abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza, too, is back from the war. He was not stolen but sold into service, where he became the protégé of an officer whose special interest has left him literally scarred for life. With nothing...
8) Paradise
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Language
English
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Description
The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa, a place of trade caravans, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.
9) Colonial intimacies: interethnic kinship, sexuality, and marriage in Southern California, 1769-1885
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Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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