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1 online resource (xviii, 372 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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"Norfolk State University's contribution ... a two-day national conference on Februray 22-23, 2007 highlighting the theme, 'America's 400th Anniversary: Voices from within the Veil."--Page [xii]. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; POST- AND NEO-COLONIAL POCAHONTAS; VOICING VIRGINIA'S "NATURALS"? ALTERITY AND THE OLD WORLD RECEPTION OF MALICK'S THE NEW WORLD; JAMESTOWN SHUFFLE; CHAPTER TWO; 'THEIR HOPED FOR LIBERTY'; "RUNNING SERVANTS AND ALL OTHERS"; THE STRANGE CASE OF SHERIDAN FORD AND CLARISSA DAVIS; THINKING MEN AND WOMEN, WHO DESIRETO IMPROVE OUR CONDITION; 40 ACRES AND A MULE; CHAPTER THREE; THE RIGHT TO ONE'S RELATIVES; THE LANGSTON-QUARLES FAMILY; ADVANTAGE, AGENCY, AND UNREST; "THE KU KLUX KLAN ARE STILL SCRAPPING HERE." |
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CHAPTER FOUR"THEY JUST GUNNED HIM DOWN UHGAIN"; JOSEPHINE ST. PIERRE RUFFIN AND MARY CHURCH TERRELL; CHAPTER FIVE; THE ECUMENICAL MOMENT; "SIT DOWN CHILDREN, SIT DOWN"; EPILOGUE; MIGRATION MATTERS, EVEN 400 YEARS LATER; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX. |
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""And then--the Veil. It drops as drops the night on southern seas--vast, sudden, unanswering. There is Hate behind it, and Cruelty and Tears. As one peers through its intricate, unfathomable pattern of ancient, old, old design, one sees blood and guilt and misunderstanding. And yet it hangs there, this Veil, between Then and Now, between Pale and Colored and Black and White -- between You and Me."" W.E.B. DuBois, Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil, 1920 ""As the promoters of Jamestown ... |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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African Americans -- History -- Congresses.
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African Americans. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- Race identity -- Congresses.
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African Americans -- Race identity. |
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Democracy -- United States -- Congresses.
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Democracy. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Alexander, William H. (William Henry), 1942-
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Newby-Alexander, Cassandra, 1957-
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Ford, Charles Howard, 1964-
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Print version: Voices from within the veil. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 9781847186256 (DLC) 2008278391 (OCoLC)239844208 |
| ISBN |
9781443811767 (electronic book) |
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1443811769 (electronic book) |
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1847186254 |
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9781847186256 |
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