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  • Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an African ... Among the African-American writers of his time, Ellison stands out ...
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  • an era marked by a creative flourish among African-American artists in Harlem ... where debates were common about black literature advancing the cause of ...
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  • of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Gates has been a strong advocate for African literature, and for a ...
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  • Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an African ... out of the Harlem Renaissance period in African-American literature, and ...
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  • | genre = African American literature | movement = | notableworks ... professor. Morrison helped promote Black literature and authors when she worked ...
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  • tend to generalize "traditional" African art, the continent is full ... Often, African art production has been related to ritual or tribal ...
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  • on television. Roots emphasized that African Americans have a long history ... to draw attention to the struggle of the early African slaves. ...
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  • especially Puerto Ricans and Cubans, and African Americans—clubs that catered ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 89119331 ...
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  • he left a mark on the history of European-African encounters which, as one ... was promoted to a lieutenant in the Royal African Corps and dispatched to ...
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  • a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... the European Scramble for Africa when the African continent was largely unknown ...
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  • because of the ineffective and inefficient search capability. ... in any library in the world using the same search strategy and LCSH thesaurus ...
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  • In addition to African-American, her family has Cherokee, Scottish ... where she taught a landmark course on African-American women’s literature ...
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  • relations. Black gospel was a synthesis of African-based musical idioms and ... The relationship between the origins of white and African-American ...
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  • * First African American to play a game in the American League ... He was signed by Bill Veeck as the first African-American to play ...
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  • According to the African Region Human Development Series, in recent ... in children's and fantasy literature. The lack of parents leaves ...
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  • Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Plagiarism is taking ... #039;s papers to a database of sources and search for plagiarism. ...
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  • Studies, Energy Science, Asian and African Area Studies, Informatics ... Studies, Energy Science, Asian and African Area Studies, Informatics ...
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  • marry their daughter. In anthropological literature bride price has often been ... price, Lobola is a traditional southern African dowry custom whereby the ...
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  • a large number of students, particularly African Americans. As such, it has ... 2009. The special emphasis on attracting African American and other minority ...
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  • The Magic Barrel (1958), depict the search for hope and meaning within ... racial issues and the emergence of black/African American literature in the ...
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  • affinity growth hormone-binding protein in African pygmies.] Retrieved August ... The Pygmies are thought to be the first inhabitants of the African ...
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  • order to take up medieval philosophy and literature, writing his thesis on ... engaged fields. Those works of literature that limit potential understanding ...
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  • perspective as well as continuing to search for new and efficient ways ... (includes psychobiology), Pan-African Studies, Philosophy, Physics ...
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  • volunteer mounted patrols, and for mounted search and rescue. ... * The South African Lipizzaners [http://www.lipizzaners.co.za The ...
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  • of undersea volcanic eruptions, as the African plate drifted over the Réunion ... India, and South Africa. It is part of the African Union, the Indian Ocean ...
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  • The goods from the East African trade landed at one of the three main ... and the accounts given in classical literature and satellite images indicating ...
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  • as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure ... sue/77486/1303895 "Turkish Literature of the Period of Sultan ...
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  • his legacy passed into myth, legend and literature and will forever be associated ... also noteworthy because he may have been African or African-American; a contemporary ...
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  • Tocqueville also believed Americans of African descent to be inferior to ... faith in their religion for who can search the human heart?— but I ...
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  • moved to Santa Barbara, California, in search of a more favorable climate ... of the first directors to employ Asian and African American dancers. ...
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  • === Pan-African and nonaligned movements === of the Non-Aligned Movement. The All-African Peoples' Conference ...
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  • The three living species of elephants are the African bush elephant ... the genus Loxodonta, known collectively as African elephants, are currently ...
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  • in the Jazz Age, an era that introduced African American music to mainstream ... streets in the heart of the city's African-American community. ...
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  • this region became among the first on the African continent to accept Islam ... this region became among the first on the African continent to adopt Islam. ...
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  • as one of the precursors to the African-American Civil Rights Movement ... to traditional Islamic thought, the Literature published by the Lahore ...
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  • Cantor co-starred in an act with pioneer African-American comedian Bert Williams ... poverty he knew as a child caused him to search quickly for more work, quickly ...
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  • extent. Victorians in Britain often saw African sculpture as ugly, but just ... of painting, photography, cinema, and literature is the presentation of ...
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  • In search of adventure, the young Melville left his native Massachusetts ... and grotesque and prefigured later modernist literature. ...
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  • is the most widely-read book in modern African literature. ... with world religions and traditional African cultures, and began writing ...
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  • on his journey through the Southeast in search of gold, becoming the first ... filter into the Spanish-held territory in search of land. In the early 1800s ...
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  • smallpox. In 1501, the colony began to import African slaves. with either the Spanish or the African descendants. The people ...
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  • of Rehoboam's reign, Shishak and his African allies invaded Judah in ... calves" became infamous in southern literature denigrating Jeroboam as ...
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  • States, particularly New York City, in search of better economic conditions ... a mixture between Spanish, Amerindian, and African genetic heritage. According ...
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  • The search for Prester John's fabled kingdom was the goal of ... Building upon this, the first clear description of an African Prester ...
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  • Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu, In Search of Dracula (Houghton Mifflin ... image of the vampire as it occurs in films and literature. ...
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  • role came later by association. In many African tribes, the king's ... * Assmann, Jan. In search for God in ancient Egypt, Translated by ...
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  • The Maasai are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic ... Christian Jennings, Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken Written ...
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  • 670, the first Arab invasions of the North African coastal plain took place ... States and is active in Maghreb, Arab, and African affairs. It belongs to the ...
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  • because of the battles we fought on the African veldt, the ravaged meadows ... details the North's great quests: the search for the Passage linking the ...
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  • 2010, South Africa will become the first African nation to host the World Cup. ... the tournament finals was open only to African nations; in 2004, the international ...
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  • Greene was considered for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times ... their lives. Greene was critical of the literature of his time for its dull ...
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  • followers. She left camp in the morning to search for a lost necklace; when ... values the biographical and historical literature, the sira, over the canonical ...
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  • and Have Not (1944), Key Largo (1948), The African Queen (1951) (for which ... ===The African Queen=== [[Image:The African Queen, Bogart.jpg|thumb ...
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  • manager, elevated Russell as the first African American player/coach in ... while compiling a 22-46 record. His search ended when Red accepted a ...
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  • an agricultural empire if there was a mass search for gold. ... were ruined after his workers left in search of gold, and squatters took ...
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  • of the United Nations. Unique among African countries, Ethiopia maintained ... which is the easternmost part of the African landmass. Bordering Ethiopia ...
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  • The banjo, too, derived from earlier African instruments, was also important ... the beaches of Venice, California, in search of enemy submarines and ships ...
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  • media as diverse as, but not limited to, literature, art, comic books, radio ... of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas." ...
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  • is also found in Apocalyptic literature, which claims that esoteric ... Apocalyptic literature belonging to the pre-Christian centuries contained ...
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  • mob threatened to storm the building in search of Thompson. The mayor and ... the abolition cause: delivered before the African Abolition Freehold Society ...
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  • however, as people move to the cities in search of employment and a higher ... Literature constitutes an important cultural element in the life of ...
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  • In terms of his contribution to literature, Solomon is traditionally ... of Solomon as a fount of Jewish wisdom literature is thus quite ancient, ...
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  • with respect to careful and repetitive search by the dog, but would seem ... * Hunting dogs search for and retrieve game. Pointers and retrievers ...
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  • he evolved into a hero-spokesman for those African-Americans who had long held ... and/or business-related vocations. African-Americans in America had ...
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  • ones, and of its initial purpose: The search of plunder, to evaluate the ... of those kingdoms, who called on the African Almoravids for help. ...
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  • like those of free jazz performers and African drummers. ... dictating the destiny of music, art and literature. This is the longest period ...
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  • * 210 B.C.E., Qin Shi Huang dispatched Xu Fu to sail overseas in search ... colonies, colonists sought to replace African slaves with indentured laborers ...
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  • flourished, and numerous masterpieces of literature, music, theater, and visual ... Paris during the 1890s). Exhibits of African tribal art also captured ...
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  • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London ... of society. For much of Pashtun history, literature has played a minor role ...
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  • in the production of an abundant literature exploring freedom for women ... rights in post-independent India. In literature, Amrita Pritam, Sarojini ...
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  • study of Buddhist and Hindu Brahmanistic literature) encouraged him to read ... South Africa the right to vote. His South African friends lamented that they ...
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  • of the world and all its connectedness. In search of this, Pound revolutionized ... in Sussex, England, studying Japanese literature, especially Noh plays. ...
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  • the best examples of Latin and Greek literature, all skill that would prove ... excerpt from the commentary of the North African Tichonius, which is preserved ...
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  • time roller skating through Hollywood in search of the many celebrities who ... quot; moved the genre into the realm of literature. Lynell George, ...
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  • the fields of philosophy, psychology, and literature. Schopenhauer ... Schopenhauer believed that what gives arts such as literature and ...
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  • previously unimaginable capabilities for search, indexing and cross reference ... such narrow topics such as bioethics and African American history. ...
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  • Alternative Comics: an emerging literature. (University Press of Mississippi ... the machine: Modernity, technology, and African American culture between ...
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  • is revered as the most precious Islamic literature in the Science of Medicine. ... acupuncture, Muti, Ifá, and traditional African medicine. ...
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  • business, he moved to New York City in search of work as a choreographer. ... After a fruitless search, Kelly returned to Pittsburgh, to his first ...
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  • city was 57.2 percent white, 23.1 percent African American, 9.0 percent Asian ... population was 45.5 percent black or African American, 31.2 percent Hispanic ...
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  • American colonies pressed ever westward in search of new agricultural lands. ... front-runner in the scramble for tropical African territories. ...
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  • but it is not impossible. Many South African Christians, Muslims, Hindus ... it is hard not to see this large body of literature as peripheral to the major ...
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  • manner as civil rights were guaranteed to African-Americans. ... Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities. (Palgrave ...
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  • tourism, and others have been used in literature and marketing, although ... sanitation facilities in many East African parks results in the disposal ...
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  • # Pongidae: Include the remaining African great apes including gorillas ... "E," often in jest or to prevent search engines from reading their ...
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  • as Bachir, a pandering homosexual North African houseboy, in an adaptation ... Dean and Presley have often been represented in academic literature ...
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  • for the PLO, the IRA, Cuba, and the South African anti-apartheid struggle ... Western fashions, music, cinema, and literature. His ultimate vision was ...
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  • Will I Know"—influenced several African-American women artists who ... Her parents were both African American. Through her mother, Houston ...
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  • violence, and persecution suffered by many African-American veterans upon their ... and the subsequent brutalization of an African American WWII veteran, drew ...
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  • of intense activity, and today a vast literature, including entire periodicals ... At the time, he thought them similar to African species, but after the voyage ...
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  • Block's Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game ... a color line that effectively barred African-American players from the ...
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  • and the sale of conflict diamonds by African paramilitary groups. ... was reported discovered by a small South African mining company. Still to ...
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  • *In Search of the Lost Chord, On The Threshold of A Dream, Seventh ... The psychedelic influence was also felt in African-American music ...
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  • from all political activity in order to search the skies for omens. This ... is occasionally seen in modern literature when an author attributes ...
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  • in the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family living in ... 5, 2010 |url= http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI ...
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  • organization that offered lectures on literature, classical music concerts ... The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience. New ...
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  • must seek to understand truth, as the search for truth is ultimately a ... of Hinduism that were seemingly on a search to define god as ultimately ...
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  • in addition to a great number of North African and Asian establishments ... from the 1950s to the 1970s; North African Jews after the independence ...
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  • aesthetics, and can use art, music, and literature to express concepts and ... led to cultural innovations such as art, literature and music. Humans are notable ...
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  • the nation. It is considered a landmark of African-American theater. Welles ... * Drazin, Charles. In Search of the Third Man. New York: Limelight ...
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  • and thus acquired Spain and its Italian, African, and New World appendages ... Austrian literature is the German language literature written in Austria ...
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  • women have a one in three lifetime risk. African-Americans are more likely ... and comprehensive analysis of the literature on diet, physical activity ...
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