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  • Out of the Revolution

    The Development of Africana Studies

    The introduction of "Black" studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for ... Leer más

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  • In The High Yemen

    de Hugh Scott ...
    First Published in 2002. Scott gives a fascinating account of an expedition that took place in 1937 to the Yemen when the country was closed to Europeans by order of the Imam. Ostensibly a scientific expedition, it possesses great political, cultural, and anthropological interest. The tense negotiations which preceded the expedition and the ultimate success assured that this work remains perhaps ... Leer más

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  • Nile Gleanings Concerning the Ethnology; History and Art of Ancient Egypt as Revealed by Egyptian Paintings and Bas-Reliefs With Descriptions of Nubia and its Great Rock Temples to the Second Cataract

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