January 7, 2013
Weekly Book List, January 11, 2013
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic
Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of
Virginia Press; 416 pages; $39.50). Focuses on Toussaint
Louverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth,
Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman in a study of black heroism
and its portrayal in historical, literary, and other realms.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropology and Political Science: A
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