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Dream country / by Gibney, Shannon,author.(CARDINAL)564440;
Includes bibliographical references."Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people from one African American family chasing an elusive dream across centuries and continents. Gibney conjures an ambitious, sinuous novel from a family tree twisted to its breaking point by slavery and colonialism but ultimately held together by hope and determination"--900L
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Young adult fiction.; African Americans; Americans; Families; Families; Liberian Americans; Refugees; Slavery;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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Tamba Hali / by Seigerman, David,author.(CARDINAL)500870;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Tamba Hali: The Basics -- Welcome to the Red Sea -- The Storm -- Hiding in the Bush -- The Crossing -- Tackling a New Life -- A Whole New Ballgame -- Put Your Hand On The Ground And Go -- " Want To Wear That Uniform" -- The End Game -- Epilogue: Home Again -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author."Long before he was sacking quarterbacks, Tamba Hali was facing bigger challenges. Learn about his life in this second book in a brand-new nonfiction series about the childhoods of your favorite athletes. Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Tamba Hali's story seems almost unbelievable. He and his seven siblings fled war-torn Liberia to the Ivory Coast during his youth and later joined their father, a chemistry and physics professor, in New Jersey. There Tamba played both basketball and soccer, but he didn't discover football until a coach finally persuaded him to try out in high school. And the rest, as they say, was history. Tamba discovered that he had a real talent for it, landing him an athletic scholarship to Pennsylvania State University and a coveted spot on their football team. Tamba went on to play in the NFL and finally brought his mother to the US from Liberia. His drive, dedication, and athletic ability are inspiring"--Age 8-12.1070LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Hali, Tamba, 1983-; Football players; Liberian Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The dragons, the giant, the women : a memoir / by Moore, Wayétu,author.(CARDINAL)680453;
"When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally, a rebel soldier smuggles them across the border to Sierra Leone, reuniting the family and setting them off on yet another journey, this time to the United States"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Moore, Wayétu.; Moore, Wayétu; Refugees; Immigrants; Liberian Americans; African Americans; Families; Authors;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 17
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The house at Sugar Beach : in search of a lost African childhood / by Cooper, Helene.(CARDINAL)669343;
940L
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Cooper, Helene.; Cooper, Helene; Elite (Social sciences); Journalists; Liberian Americans;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The house at Sugar Beach [sound recording] / by Cooper, Helene.;
Producer/director, Carol Shapiro ; associate producer, Michael Noble.Read by the author.A historical memoir about growing up in Liberia during a violent civil war, reported with a journalistic bent.
Subjects: Cooper, Helene.; Cooper, Helene; Audiobooks.; Elite (Social sciences); Journalists; Liberian Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tribes of the Liberian hinterland / by Schwab, George.(CARDINAL)140855; Harley, George W.(George Way),1894-1966.(CARDINAL)180428;
"References": pages 469-471.
Subjects: Ethnology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900. by Tindall, George Brown.(CARDINAL)123537;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326) and index.Slavery and reconstruction -- The twilight of reconstruction -- The decline of the republican party -- Negroes in politics -- Nullification of the Fifteenth Amendment -- Negroes in agriculture -- Nonagricultural pursuits -- The Liberian exodus -- The migratory urge -- The Negro church -- Education -- The context of violence -- Crime and convict leasing -- Care of the indigent and defective -- Social life -- The color line -- Some evaluations.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Visualizing equality : African American rights and visual culture in the nineteenth century / by Gonzalez, Aston,1986-author.(CARDINAL)853026;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Visualizing equality ... analyz[es] how previously unexamined or understudied African American artists shaped conceptions of race during the nineteenth century. Marshaling material from 26 private and public archives in the United States and England, Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they used their work to expand black rights in the United States. Understudied or forgotten artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James P. Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for black social equality, political enfranchisement, and freedom from slavery, and Gonzalez argues that these cultural producers helped to make the world they envisioned through their art"--Introduction: Pictured appeals, social reformers -- Graphic exchanges: Robert Douglass Jr.'s activism in Philadelphia -- Picturing black fugitivity and respectability in New York City -- Compositions of no ordinary merit and the struggle for black rights -- Spectacular activism: black abolitionists and their moving panoramas -- The optics of Liberian emigration -- Freedom and citizenship: conflicting views of wartime -- Religion, rights, and the promises of Reconstruction -- Epilogue.
Subjects: African American art; African American artists; African Americans in art.; Art and race.; African Americans; African Americans; Politics in art.; Civil rights movements;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The best American science and nature writing 2015 / by Folger, Tim,editor.(CARDINAL)324070; Skloot, Rebecca,1972-editor.(CARDINAL)497760; Abrahamson, Jake,contributor.(CARDINAL)626426; Bilger, Burkhard,contributor.(CARDINAL)363355; Boneham, Sheila Webster,1952-contributor.(CARDINAL)651299; Boyle, Rebecca(Rebecca B.),contributor.(CARDINAL)626362; Deming, Alison Hawthorne,1946-contributor.(CARDINAL)379776; Fink, Sheri,contributor.(CARDINAL)674408; Gawande, Atul,contributor.(CARDINAL)662503; Hamilton, Lisa M.,contributor.(CARDINAL)559141; Jacobsen, Rowan,contributor.(CARDINAL)674800; Jamison, Leslie,contributor.(CARDINAL)547638; Jarvis, Brooke,1981-contributor.(CARDINAL)626367; Kean, Sam,contributor.(CARDINAL)325615; Keith, Jourdan Imani,1961-contributor.(CARDINAL)626376; Kintisch, Eli,1977-contributor.(CARDINAL)498986; Kolbert, Elizabeth,contributor.(CARDINAL)324071; Maxmen, Amy,1977-contributor.(CARDINAL)626380; Mnookin, Seth,contributor.(CARDINAL)467131; Overbye, Dennis,1944-contributor.(CARDINAL)357723; Power, Matthew,1974-2014,contributor.(CARDINAL)626385; Schweitzer, Sarah,1970-contributor.(CARDINAL)626427; Specter, Michael,contributor.(CARDINAL)497478; Subramanian, Meera,contributor.(CARDINAL)410744; Todd, Kim,1970-contributor.(CARDINAL)334368; Wolman, David(Journalist),contributor.(CARDINAL)429609; Yeoman, Barry,1960-contributor.(CARDINAL)626383;
Subjects: Essays.; Literature.; Science; Nature;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Blacks in bondage : letters of American slaves / by Starobin, Robert S.(CARDINAL)126240;
Includes bibliographical references. "The 1974 original publication of Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves marked a watershed in slavery studies. Before it appeared, historians were resigned to studying American slavery mainly through the testimony of white and the distant recollections of blacks who had been free for many years. It took this compilation of documents, gathered by Robert S. Starobin, to convince historians that it was possible to study American slavery from the perspective of blacks living under it or only recently freed. The letters show that, in spite of legal and practical obstacles, many slaves managed to become literate or else desired to, and that slaves given greater autonomy or the hope of freedom always worked more diligently. The spirit of protest is amply evidenced: Included in the collection are depositions of members of the Gabriel Conspiracy of 1800, a plane for a large-scale slave revolt, which was betrayed from within. The letters are grouped according to the status of their authors at the time of composition, for example, slaves seeking to gain their freedom, fugitives, and freedmen living in Liberia. Starobin's commentaries give the writers' backgrounds and guide the reader in interpreting the texts, many of which conceal subtexts full of mockery and defiance." -- publisher's description.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal correspondence.; Slavery; Enslaved persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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