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The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2009
African Origins The modern human originated in Africa and subsequently spread across the globe. However, the genetic relationships among the diverse populations on the African continent have been unclear. Tishkoff et al.
Tishkoff SA   +24 more
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THE BLUES, THE FOLK, AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY [PDF]

open access: yesTransactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2001
Abstract ON a stifling Saturday in Texas in June 1937 a twenty-six-year-old African-American musician, Robert Johnson, stepped to the microphone in a makeshift recording studio in a disused warehouse atop a Buick showroom. Johnson had grabbed a ride west from his native Mississippi to make it to the recording session in Dallas, one more journey ...
Hamilton, Marybeth
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Rediscovery and range extension for Platyclarias machadoi Poll, 1977 (Siluriformes, Clariidae) in the Kwanza River, Angola [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List, 2023
We report the first record of Platyclarias machadoi Poll, 1977 since its original description. This species was sampled by electrofishing in rapids on the Kwanza River upstream of Capanda Dam in Angola.
Maxwell J. Bernt   +3 more
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The Dodo and the Bear: Stanley Elkin’s Encounters with the Animal

open access: yesNesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021
Stanley Elkin’s The Dick Gibson Show and Searches and Seizures present two human encounters with the animal – the former a dodo, the latter a bear. One encounter is violent, the other sexual, but both provide an interpretation of interspecies encounters ...
Thomas Aiello
doaj   +1 more source

White Innocence, Black Erasure: Reviewing Alcindo (2020) Against the Fictions of Portuguese Colonial Bonhomie

open access: yesPráticas da História, 2023
This essay uses Miguel Dores’ documentary Alcindo (2020) to propose a critique of whiteness in Portugal. It is argued that the endorsement of narratives of lusotropicalismo, Portuguese colonial exceptionalism, forms a line of continuity between Portugal’
Patrícia Martins Marcos
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Contemporary African American Historical Novel [PDF]

open access: yesЛитература двух Америк, 2023
The paper discusses the works of African American writers of the end of the 1960s — the end of the 2010s that address the historical past of African Americans and explores the traumatic experience of slavery and its consequences.
Yuri V. Stulov
doaj   +1 more source

Racial Passing off the Record: A Journey in Reconnection and Navigating Shifting Identities

open access: yesGenealogy, 2022
Anyone of African descent or with African ancestry who engages in a genealogy project soon learns that the U.S. Census is a helpful yet frustrating tool.
Gabby C. Womack
doaj   +1 more source

Description of two new species of Chiloglanis (Teleostei, Mochokidae) from the Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands freshwater ecoregion: an overlooked hotspot of rheophilic fishes [PDF]

open access: yesZooKeys
Growing evidence indicates that species diversity within the genus Chiloglanis Peters 1868 is poorly resolved and major taxonomic revisions are required.
Tadiwa I. Mutizwa   +4 more
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Out of the Shadows: Bringing African American Digital Collections Together in Umbra Search African American History

open access: yesOpen Library of Humanities, 2018
This article explores in four sections the logic and impact of the ways in which all archival collections, but African American collections most poignantly, are incomplete; and how a national search engine for African American history confronts and ...
Cecily Marcus, Sarah Carlson
doaj   +2 more sources

Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2021
Aaron Witcher reviews Valérie Loichot\'s Water Graves: The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020).
doaj   +1 more source

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