Swift River

Swift RiverIts the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. Ever since her Pop disappeared seven years ago, she and her mother hitchhike everywhere they go. But thats not the only reason Diamond stands out: shes teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pops been gone, she is the only Black person in all of Swift River. This summer, Ma is determined to declare Pop legally dead so that they can collect his life insurance

so they think they are in the clear

the date the first Africans were landed at Jamestown in the British North American colony of Virginia

The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor “[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life

a fresh start

Sci-fi action meets steamy paranormal romance in Gini Koch’s Alien novels

and it provides all readers with a white feminist theorist's sophisticated theoretical and self-critical scholarly account of her own reckoning with and learning in dialogue from Black feminism's critique

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While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement

After the war

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Paperback ‏ : ‎ 148 pages

Eric Duke moves beyond the narrow view of federation as only relevant to Caribbean and British imperial histories