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The Door of No Return

Author : Kwame Alexander
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316442062
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Door of No Return written by Kwame Alexander and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander, comes the first book in a searing, breathtaking trilogy that tells the story of a boy, a village, and the epic odyssey of an African family. In his village in Upper Kwanta, 11-year-old Kofi loves his family, playing oware with his grandfather and swimming in the river Offin. He’s warned though, to never go to the river at night. His brother tells him ”There are things about the water you do not know. “ Like what? Kofi asks. “The beasts.” His brother answers. One fateful night, the unthinkable happens and in a flash, Kofi’s world turns upside down. Kofi soon ends up in a fight for his life and what happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. This spellbinding novel by the author of The Crossover and Booked will take you on an unforgettable adventure that will open your eyes and break your heart. The Door of No Return is an excellent choice for independent reading, sharing in the classroom, book groups, and homeschooling. An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!

The Door of No Return

Author : Sarah Mussi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416968253
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book The Door of No Return written by Sarah Mussi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zac Baxter's grandfather has always told him he's descended from African kings and is the rightful heir to a treasure that was stolen when his ancestors were sold into slavery. Zac believes none of this until his grandfather is murdered and his apartment is ransacked.

A Map to the Door of No Return

Author : Dionne Brand
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 038567483X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book A Map to the Door of No Return written by Dionne Brand and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery. Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation, the connection to place in Canada and the world beyond. The title, A Map to the Door of No Return, refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history—the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogenous identities. In this exquisitely written and thought-provoking new work, Dionne Brand creates a map of her own art.

Beyond the Door of No Return

Author : David Diop
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374606781
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Door of No Return written by David Diop and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stunningly realized . . . Exquisite . . . A spellbinding novel about the high price of betrayal—of others, and oneself." —Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the Booker Prize The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize. Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman’s name: Maram. The key to this mysterious woman’s identity is Adanson’s unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers. Therein lies a story as fantastical as it is tragic: Maram, it turns out, is none other than the fabled revenant. A young woman of noble birth from the kingdom of Waalo, Maram was sold into slavery but managed to escape from the Island of Gorée—a major embarkation point of the transatlantic slave trade—to a small village hidden in the forest. While on a research expedition in West Africa as a young man, Adanson hears the story of the revenant and becomes obsessed with finding her. Accompanied by his guide, he ventures deep into the Senegalese bush on a journey that reveals not only the savagery of the French colonial occupation but also the unlikely transports of the human heart. Written with sensitivity and narrative flair, David Diop’s Beyond the Door of No Return is a love story like few others. Drawing on the richness and lyricism of Senegal’s oral traditions, Diop has constructed a historical epic of the highest order.

Exodus from the Door of No Return

Author : Roy G. Phillips Phd
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1452086206
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Exodus from the Door of No Return written by Roy G. Phillips Phd and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After sixty years, Dr. Roy G. Phillips, retired founding campus president at Miami-Dade College, Homestead Campus, returned to his native home in rural Webster Parish outside of Minden, Louisiana. It took him almost forty years to fulfill a dream, a journey that began as a conversation with renowned author Alex Haley culminated with the collection of fascinating stories, and then finished in a poignant book that tells the story of his ancestors in their trajectory from Africa to America. When he retired in December 2001, Phillips turned to writing, piecing together years worth of research. The final product, Exodus from the Door of No Return: Journey of an American Family (AuthorHouse) was published in September 2006 and revised in October 2008. Phillips family saga mirrors the lives of what arguably could be the tale of most African Americans. In the book, family is the glue that binds Phillips ancestors from Slavery to Reconstruction, Jim Crow Segregation, the World Wars, the Great Migration of black families out of the South, the tumultuous civil rights period of the sixties, to the present day. Phillips might never have started on the journey of family discovery if it had not been for a chance meeting with Haley, who had come to speak at the University of Michigan. At that time, Haley was in the midst of researching his book Roots, and Phillips was completing his doctoral dissertation in urban secondary administration. I spent half of the night talking to him about what to do, he recalls. He said, Go and talk to the old folks in your family. Get their stories. Phillips painstaking tracked down the descendants of the plantation owners James Germany McDade II who owned his great grandfather and other relatives. Phillips continues to meet and correspond with the McDades in Shreveport and East Texas. He also underwent DNA testing which helped him track both his paternal ancestry to the Mbute people in the Central African Republic and his maternal ancestry to the Mende people in Sierra Leone West Africa.

Door of No Return

Author : Sarah Mussi
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444907344
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Door of No Return written by Sarah Mussi and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zac lives with his grandfather, Pops. When Pops is killed by muggers, Zac is devastated. Dumped with foster parents, then in an orphanage, Zac stumbles from trouble to trouble, but the one thing he hangs on to is Pops' obsession with their family history and his ambition to go to Ghana in search of a ransom paid by a descendant 200 years earlier, to keep his son from slavery - a ransom stolen by British government agents at the time, which then disappeared. At least, Zac thinks, he can keep faith with Pops by continuing his quest. So Zac wangles his own way to Ghana. Alone and far from home, he discovers that Pops' death and everything since is part of a wider plan by some shadowy others, also connected to the lost ransom. In a web of intrigue, deception, betrayal, skulduggery and murder that reaches out of the past to entrap everyone in the present, Zac's quest culminates in a perilous voyage to the Door of No Return in the walls of the ancient slave fort - through which the slaves were once herded to the boats that would take them across the ocean, on a journey many of them would never survive.

The Door of No Return

Author : William St. Clair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Door of No Return written by William St. Clair and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Door of No Return

Author : Steven Barboza
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780525651888
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Door of No Return written by Steven Barboza and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 1994 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of Goree Island, which was used as a holding area by slavetraders for their captives

Beyond the Door of No Return

Author : Selene Wendt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788857245607
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Door of No Return written by Selene Wendt and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesser-known tales of anticolonial defiance in artworks and marginal histories worldwide The artists featured in this book create compelling narratives that shed light on the entangled colonial histories that connect Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Collectively, these artists provide crucial insight into some of the lesser-known aspects of colonial history, such as Norwegian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. They describe the lives of freedom fighters such as Venus Johannes, Mary Thomas, Olaudah Equiano and Anna Heegaard. By highlighting the stories of those who have been historically silenced, we encounter a more nuanced understanding of colonial history and the factors that have contributed to the continued effects of colonialism today, most evidently witnessed in the prevalence of institutional, systemic and everyday racism, poverty and forced migration. Artists include: John Akomfrah, La Vaughn Belle, Manthia Diawara, Jeannette Ehlers, Michelle Eistrup, Sasha Huber, Oceana James, Patricia Kaersenhout, Grada Kilomba, Suchitra Mattai and Alberta Whittle.

The Door of No Return

Author : William St. Clair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Culture on Tour

Author : Edward M. Bruner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226077628
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book Culture on Tour written by Edward M. Bruner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing a variety of tourist productions, ranging from dance dramas in Bali to an Abraham Lincoln heritage site in Illinois, Bruner considers the diverse perspectives of various actors, including the tourists, the producers, the natives & the anthropologist himself.

The Door of No Return

Author : Sarah Mussi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780329826734
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Door of No Return written by Sarah Mussi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Zac never believed his grandfather's tales about their enslaved ancestors being descended from an African king, but when his grandfather is murdered and the villains come after Zac, he sets out for Ghana to find King Baktu's long-lost treasure before the murderers do.

Dear Science and Other Stories

Author : Katherine McKittrick
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012579
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Dear Science and Other Stories written by Katherine McKittrick and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout, McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems.

Cape Coast

Author : Walter D Ray
Publisher : Bird in Paradise Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780989042314
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Cape Coast written by Walter D Ray and published by Bird in Paradise Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Coast: Coming Home Through The Door of No Return is a personal story of adventure, discovery, traveling through time and space and almost like entering into a different dimension. Alex Haley uncovered and shared his family history in the book titled Roots and in so doing allowed many of us that came to America by way of the Transatlantic slave trade to gain a deeper understanding of what our common ancestors lived through. I may well be the first of my family lineage to travel back to Africa where it all began. I'm hoping and believing that the reader will be able to see and feel what it means to return home after a sojourn that has lasted for centuries. I believe that Cape Coast: Coming Home Through The Door of No Return will enlighten and change the way you feel and think about Africa and hopefully inspire you to travel to Ghana and beyond to experience the wonders that she holds.

House of Slaves & Door of No Return

Author : Edmund Abaka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book House of Slaves & Door of No Return written by Edmund Abaka and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book situates the slave forts, slave castles and dungeons of Ghana in the history of the Atlantic Slave trade to argue that these sites of historical memory to the people of the African Diaspora were critical in the whole slave trade experience.

Harriet’s Legacies

Author : Ronald Cummings
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228012201
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Harriet’s Legacies written by Ronald Cummings and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic freedom fighter and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman risked her life to ferry enslaved people from America to freedom in Canada. Her legacy instigates and orients this exploration of the history of Black lives and the future of collective struggle in Canada. Harriet’s Legacies recuperates the significance of Tubman’s time in Canada as more than just an interlude in her American narrative: it is a new point from which to think about Black diasporic mobilities, possibilities, and histories. Through essays and creative works this collection articulates new territory for Tubman in relation to the Black Atlantic archive, connecting her legacies of survival, freedom, and cultural expression within a transnational framework. Contributors take up the question of legacy in ways that remap discourses of genealogy and belonging, positioning Tubman as an important part of today’s freedom struggles. Integrating scholarship with creative and curatorial practices, the volume expands conversations about culture and expression in African Canadian life across art, literature, performance, politics, and public pedagogy. Considering questions of culture, community, and futures, Harriet’s Legacies explores what happened in the wake of Tubman’s legacy and situates Canada as a key part of that dialogue.

Diasporic Women's Writing of the Black Atlantic

Author : Emilia María Durán-Almarza
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136657053
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Diasporic Women's Writing of the Black Atlantic written by Emilia María Durán-Almarza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the grounds to (en)gender a more complex understanding of the scattered geographies of the African diaspora in the Atlantic basin. The variety of approaches displayed bears witness to the vitality of a field that, over the years, has become a diasporic formation itself as it incorporates critical insights and theoretical frameworks from multiple disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities, thus exposing the manifold character of (black) diasporic interconnections within and beyond the Atlantic. Focusing on a wide array of contemporary literary and performance texts by women writers and performers from diverse locations including the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, the US, and the UK, chapters visit genres such as performance art, the novel, science fiction, short stories, and music. For these purposes, the volume is organized around two significant dimensions of diasporas: on the one hand, the material—corporeal and spatial—locations where those displacements associated with travel and exile occur, and, on the other, the fluid environments and networks that connect distant places, cultures, and times. This collection explores the ways in which women of African descent shape the cultures and histories in the modern, colonial, and postcolonial Atlantic worlds.