Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres
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Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically...

Social Lives of Forests: Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence
Susanna Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison and Christine Padoch
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Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face--including deforestation,...

USS Constitution Pocket Manual
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Launched in 1797, USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United...
Color and Character: West Charlotte High and the American Struggle Over Educational Equality
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At a time when race and inequality dominate national debates, the story of West Charlotte High...

The Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays
Harry J. Elam, Douglas A. Jones, Eisa Davis and Christina Anderson
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'Post-black' refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of...
The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature
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There was a time when "the Beats" seemed a familiar, even fixed, pantheon: Kerouac, Ginsberg,...

The Waters of Eternal Youth
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In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series, our...

Darktown
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Darktown is a relentlessly gripping, highly intelligent crime novel set in Atlanta in 1948,...

Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League
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Breaking the color line with Jackie Robinson Just weeks after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn...
An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya
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In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated...