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AuthorHouse Armenian History
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Into Egypt Again With Ships A Message To The Forgotten Israelites
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Poems From a Gypsy Soul Volume 2
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University of Toronto Press Love Stories
Book SynopsisIn the remote highlands of the country of Georgia, a small group of mountaindwellers called the Khevsurs used to express sexuality and romance in ways that appear to be highly paradoxical. On the one hand, their practices were romantic, but could never lead to marriage. On the other hand, they were sexual, but didn't correspond to what North Americans, or most Georgians, would have called sex. These practices were well documented by early ethnographers before they disappeared completely by the midtwentieth century, and have become a Georgian obsession. In this fascinating book, Manning recreates the story of how these private, secretive practices became a matter of national interest, concern, and fantasy. Looking at personal expressions of love and the circulation of these narratives at the broader public level of the modern nation, Love Stories offers an ethnography of language and desire that doubles as an introduction to key linguistic genres and to the interplay of langTrade ReviewLove Stories contains an abundance of translated examples; in the case of poetry, the Khevsur Georgian original is also provided (in transliteration). In addition to their informational and aesthetic value, the textual materials find use as pedagogical resources to illustrate concepts such as genre, sociability and performativity. -- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Although of interest to scholars of post-socialism, the Caucasus, and linguistics, the book is that much sought-after, brief, jargonless, and vividly written ethnographic introduction to anthropological 'intersections' that brings together a variety of classical anthropological topics, all in about 140 pages. -- Anthropologica Love Stories is a highly readable and interesting ethnography that will captivate the imagination of its readers as it has Georgian intellectuals. Accessible to undergraduates as an introduction to ethnography, it will also stimulate those interested in kinship, love poetry, socialism and post-socialism, queer anthropology and the history of anthropology. -- Anthropology NewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Setting the Stage for Romance A Brief Introduction to Khevsur Love Well, Did They, or Didn't They? Georgian Stereotypes about Khevsurs and "the Romance of the Mountains" Language and Desire: Genres and Practices The Khevsurs in History Plan of the Book 1. THE AMBASSADOR The Elchi as Mediator Autonomy, Persuasion, and Desire The Elchi at Work: A Girl's First Night of Sts'orproba Conversation 1: The Elchi and the Girl Conversation 2: The Elchi and the Boy Conversation 3: The Elchi and the Mother 2. SPENDING THE NIGHT TOGETHER Lying Down and Getting Up: Sociable Talk and Sociable Sexuality Intimate Contact: Prohibition and Transgression Boundary: Sex Boundary: Marriage Sociability and Obligation The Role of Different Genres 3. GOING STEADY The Social Life of Vodka Going with Vodka Visiting Vodka Road Vodka The Sexual Life of Vodka Stealing Vodka Saving and Hiding Vodka Drinking Vodka From Casual to Durable Sexual Relations: Sts'orperis and Dzmobilis The Dzmobili Relationship and Its Rivals Night and Day Creating and Maintaining Durable Relationships over Time Creating the Relationship: Oaths and Hints Maintaining the Relationship: Waiting and Exchange 4. INVISIBLE LOVE POETRY The Invisibility of Khevsur Love Poetry: The Absence of the Lyric Mode Articulating Desire in Pshavian Lyric The Erasure of Desire in Khevsur Love Poetry Anonymity: Erasure of the Author of Love Poetry Replacing Individual Desire with Desirability in Praise Poetry 5. DEMONS, DANGER, AND DESIRE: THE "ARAGVIAN" SEXUAL REVOLUTION Scandal Narratives Russian Marriage The Aragvian Way of Love Khevsur Girls' Love Stories: Three Case Studies Mariemi's Story Nanuk'i's Story Ashekali's Story 6. INTELLIGENTSIA AND PEOPLE: A LOVE STORY Genres of Realism and Romance The Story of Natela: A Khevsur Romance of the Nineteenth Century The Story of Natela: A Native Ethnographer of the Twentieth Century 7. ECHOES OF LOVE LOST: SOCIALIST NOVELS AND FILMS Socialist Ethnographies Modernist Novels Socialist Films Modernity and Tradition: Frame Narrative and Framed Narrative Romance, Poetry, and Violence Echoes of Sts'orproba Conclusion: Virtual Romance From Film to Image: Khevsurs in Late-Socialist Art Virtual Romance on Georgian Teen Forums Glossary References Index
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AuthorHouse African Proverbs Parables And Wise Sayings
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AuthorHouse Lost Boys of the Bronx
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AuthorHouse Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Igbo Traditional
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AuthorHouse A History of Women in Politics in Ghana 19571992
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AuthorHouse The Making of the Cape Verdean
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Trafford Publishing Luyia Nation
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Trafford Publishing Luyia Nation
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Trafford Publishing Luyia of Kenya
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Author Solutions Inc With human rights abuses two genocides and war crimes is it time now for the DRC to join the Commonwealth
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AuthorHouse Celebrating the Dead in Kalabari Land
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Xlibris Corporation Black Men Do Cry
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Xlibris Corporation Airborne to Chairborne
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Crescent City Girls The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
Book SynopsisWhat was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighbourhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk
Book SynopsisBrings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the colour line, double consciousness, or Booker T. Washington, Stephanie J. Shaw reads Du Bois' book as a profoundly nuanced interpretation of the souls of black Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rapper Writer PopCultural Player
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience. Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant pop-cultural trends that have proved to be both innovative and admired on the one hand, and contentious and divisive on the other. Ice-T's iconic and multifarious career maps these shifts. This is the first book that, taken as a whole, looks at a black cultural icon''s manipulation of (or manipulation by?) so many different forms simultaneously. The result is a fascinating series of tensions arising from Ice-T's abiliTrade Review’Metcalf and Turner have assembled an impressive collection of essays regarding one of hip-hop's most controversial and important figures. Covering a vast range of cultural fields, from reality television to film, crime drama acting to politics, video games to entrepreneurship, ageing and masculinity, the book embraces the Renaissance Man spirit that makes Ice-T, and hip-hop culture, so complex and valuable.’ Justin Williams, University of Bristol, UK ’These wide-ranging and analytically sharp essays speak to the maturity of hip-hop studies as a field and bring home the reach of contemporary hip-hop culture through the career of one iconic individual. Ice-T’s success captures the immense creative and commercial versatility of hip-hop culture, and crystallizes trends in the conglomerated cultural industries - the power of rap celebrities to build and sustain their careers in a corporate-dominated media environment.’ Eithne Quinn, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction “It’s got to feel real but not be real” (Ice-T), Josephine Metcalf, Will Turner; Part 1 Hip-Hop Contexts; Chapter 1 Ice/Age: Experience, Achievement, and Transformations of an OG, Murray Forman; Chapter 2 Ice-T at the Movies: The Hip-Hop Film Cycle and the On-Screen Gangsta in Flux, Keith Corson; Chapter 3 Voices of the Gods: Definition, Diegesis, and Discourse in Ice-T’s The Art of Rap, James Braxton Peterson; Part 2 Genre Hustling; Chapter 4 Crossing Police Lines: Body Count and the Politics of Intercultural Miscommunication, Will Turner; Chapter 5 Member of an Elite Squad: Ice-T and the Imagining of “Fin” Tutuola, Mark D. Cunningham; Chapter 6 Ice Loves Coco: Reality TV, Hip-Hop, and the Articulation of Neo-Liberal Family Values, Barry Shanahan; Chapter 7 Writing “on the Rilla” with Ice-T: from Autobiography to Avatar in Kings of Vice, Jonathan Munby; Part 3 Activist, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur; Chapter 8 Gaming the System: Ice-T as Neoliberal Hustler and Entrepreneurial Philanthropist, Greg Dimitriadis, Justin De Senso; Chapter 9 The Peacemaking Producer of LA: Negotiating and Representing Gangs on Reality TV, Josephine Metcalf; Chapter 10 Ice-T’s Sense of Redemption and the Gangbanger Autobiography, H. David Brumble; Chapter 11 Getting “A Message Through to the Red, White, and Blue”: Ice-T in the Age of Obama, Halifu Osumare; Part 4 Interview; Chapter 12 Living by Your Word: An Interview with Ice-T; afterword Afterword Ice-T’s “-ish” and The Power of Street Knowledge, Travis L. Gosa;
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Black Shame
Book SynopsisBlack Shame offers a detailed analysis of the recruitment and deployment of and reactions to African soldiers in the WWI European theatre of war. In so doing, the book paints a vivid picture of the wider debates of race and national identity provoked by the use of African troops within the main actors on the WWI scene: France, Britain, Germany and even the US. Drawing on war-time attitudes, Dick van Galen Last explores the reality and long-term consequences of the participation of African regiments in the post-war occupation of the German territories. Wide-ranging, both geographically and thematically, the first publication of its kind, Black Shame adds a fresh, truly comparative perspective to the scholarship in the fields of imperial and military history, as well as war studies and postcolonial studies, and will appeal to academics and postgraduate students alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. From Barbarian to Soldier 2. Recruiting, Deployment and Controversy 1914-1917 3. Mass Recruitment 1918 4. At and behind the Front 5. The Way Home 6. Black Atlantic 7. The 'Black Shame': Africans in the Rhineland 8. Germany: Humiliation and Outrage 9. The World Beyond Germany: Amazement and Outrage 10. Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Archaeology of Race
Trade ReviewReveals an unexpected link between two major figures in early anthropology, and one that adds weight to my favourite Darwin quote, that: 'Ignorance more frequently breeds confidence than does knowledge'. -- Steve Jones, The LancetThe Archaeology of Race: the Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie tells the tale and pays particular attention to the role of attractiveness in defining ancestry. The book has a detailed, indeed exhaustive, analysis of some of the material in UCL's collections, and itself has rather a whiff of the museum (with “multiple visualities at play”). Even so, The Archaeology of Race reveals an unexpected link between two major figures in early anthropology, and one that adds weight to my favourite Darwin quote, that: “Ignorance more frequently breeds confidence than does knowledge”. -- Steve Jones, The LancetTable of ContentsForeword by Natasha McEnroe, former Curator of the Galton Collection and Director of the Florence Nightingale Museum. Introduction Races and Men Before the 1860s Galton and Genius Fitting Aesthetics Photographing Races from Antiquity Greek Art, Greek Faces? Peopling the Old Testament Akhenaten's Heredity The New Ancient Race Flinders Petrie and Edwardian Politics Memphis Heads Afterword by Kathleen Sheppard, Missouri University of Science and Technology Appendices
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Darcus Howe A Political Biography
Book SynopsisRobin Bunce is Director of Studies for Politics at Homerton College, Cambridge, UK, and a Bye-Fellow in History at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is also an editor of Twentieth Century History Review.Paul Field worked as a journalist for many years specializing in issues of policing, asylum and institutional racism, before becoming a lawyer specializing in the fields of discrimination and employment.Trade ReviewDarcus Howe has had a somewhat dramatic personal and political life, both of which are sewn together seamlessly in the forthcoming book Darcus Howe: A Political Biography. -- Subi Shah * New Internationalist magazine *An obvious candidate [for the Orwell Prize] from this year’s nominees is Robin Bunce and Paul Field’s “political biography” of the activist and journalist Darcus Howe. The book is political in far more than its content: as the authors rightly say, Britain’s Black Power movement is in danger of being written out of history. -- Conrad Landin * The Independent *The first detailed history of black power in Britain . . . Bunce and Paul Field have published a political biography of Darcus Howe – one of the most significant black activists in Britain – using him as a framework for a history of the black power movement in Britain. -- Mark Brown * The Guardian *This new book, co-authored by the Haldane Society’s Paul Field, is passionately conceived, thoroughly researched, and very well written. It is thoroughly recommended ... I can also vouch for the authors’ accuracy and objectivity, and the skill with which they bring key events of the last forty plus years to life ... Howe was never an organiser, nor a leader. But he has played a very considerable role in the movement for a distinctive Black British identity. This new book brings the man and forty years of tumultuous history to life, and never forgets the role of the political analysis which Howe learnt from C. L. R. James. -- Bill Bowring, Professor of Law, University of London * Socialist Lawyer *This is a long overdue and badly needed biographical portrait of the black Trinidadian political radical and broadcaster Darcus Howe, who as one of the leading ideological agitators of the British Black Power Movement made a critical contribution to the shaping of modern multiracial and multicultural ‘postcolonial’ Britain...The pioneering efforts of Bunce and Field, undertaken in close collaboration with Howe himself and his partner, Leila Hassan, mean that for the first time the essential facts of Howe’s life and work are presented in one volume, complete with some remarkable photographs. At least some aspects of the fascinating, gripping, and often inspiring record of activism and campaigning that emerges will doubtless be new to the vast majority of readers, and the authors are to be commended for making this such an accessible and readable narrative that illuminates the wider civil rights and black liberation struggle in Britain. -- Christian Høgsbjerg, University of York * Twentieth Century British History *Just how far the British Left needs to travel in order to reshape its politics via the Black British experience is revealed by the superb Darcus Howe: A Political Biography which via personal testimony revisits a history of migration, self-self-organisaton and resistance which exists largely outside of traditional Left politics. -- Mark Perryman, Philosophy Football * Counterfire *This biography of Darcus Howe is undoubtedly a labour of love. Robin Bunce and Paul Field have made a creditable attempt to chart postwar black activism though one man's life. And there can be no other person more appropriate to build the story around - because Darcus Howe is one of the standout activists and public intellectuals of his generation ... for many of us, he will always be that man in the dock at the Mangrove trail, standing up to an institutioanlly racist state - and standing up for us all. This meticulous biography sets out the facts about a life and an era that should be far more widely known. -- Diane Abbott MP * The New Statesman *At least some aspects of the fascinating, gripping, and often inspiring record of activism and campaigning that emerges will doubtless be new to the vast majority of readers, and the authors are to be commended for making this such an accessible and readable narrative that illuminates the wider civil rights and black liberation struggle in Britain. -- Christian Hogsbjerg * Journal of Palestine Studies *This fascinating political biography of Darcus Howe will teach even the most knowledgeable of students of Caribbean history and the struggles of the diaspora many valuable lessons... Howe survived police harassment, imprisonment, death threats from the Trinidadian state and the pressure to metamorphose into a middle class peacemaker that went with becoming something of a media star and then broadcaster. It is a testimony to the strength of his resolve that he still remains committed to struggle from below - a struggle in which black people had to find their voice but also one where he did not give up totally on the possibilities of wider class unity, although it was perhaps for others to concentrate on this. Howe persists as a troublemaker and this book is a fitting and honest testimony to his continuing contribution to the struggle for black liberation and radical change. * Gary McFarlane, International Socialism *One of the most exciting books on the shelves at the moment * Left Futures *This book is a an invaluable contribution to a vital task: uncovering the history of black activism in Britain and its relationship to global trends. The authors place the meaning and impact of Black Power, so often caricatured, in a richly chronicled context. In the spirit of CLR James, a figure who rightly presides over the book, as he did over the life of its subject, they focus on grass-roots creativity, on the interventions of people on the margins. In so doing, they bring to life a series of dramatic struggles, including the Black Power revolt in Trinidad, the persecution of the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill and the ground-breaking resistance to it, the New Cross fire and the Brixton riots of 1981. The book is a powerful reminder of much of our recent history, a history in danger of being forgotten or filed away under glib rubrics. * Mike Marqusee, author of Redemption Song: Muhammed Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (2005). *Darcus Howe has been a towering figure,a powerful voice and an indominatable spirit for nearly half a century. His life embraces the history and critical importance of the struggle for justice and equality before the law. The lessons so graphically described in this book should not be forgotten by anyone lest we be condemned to relive them. * Michael Mansfield, Professor of Law at City University and Visiting Professor of Law at Birkbeck London, UK *Bruce and Field's new biography shows Howe as an indomitable class fighter, a man who refuses to allow even the threat of prison, or a diagnosis of cancer to silence him...The story of their [Howe and CLR James] personal relationship and thie response to British society is interweaved into the narrative of this text, a story that remains little known outside of the black community...For those interested in the significance and development of black urban politics in Britain, this book offers an informative, stimulating and at times controversial read. -- Jacqueline Walker, author of Pilgrim State (Sceptre, 2008) * writing in Labour Briefing *This riveting study illuminates the complexity of Darcus Howe's lifelong dedication to radical politics. Diligently researched and engagingly written, this remarkable book articulates and salutes a unique presence in modern British history; an activist whose stance against racial oppression remains undiminished, unapologetic and uncompromising, in a contemporary world too-often dominated by the shape-shifting of spin and short-term reactive thinking. -- Deirdre Osborne, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonTable of ContentsPreface Introduction – ‘Darcus Howe is a West Indian’ 1 Son of a Preacher Man 2 ‘ Dabbling with Revolution ’ : Black Power Comes to Britain 3 Know Yourself 4 Cause for Concern 5 ‘ Darcus Howe is not a Comedian ’ 6 Revolution in Trinidad: ‘Seize Power and send for James’ 7 A Resting Place in Babylon: Frank Crichlow and the Mangrove 8 Demonstration 9 Clampdown 10 55 Days at the Old Bailey 11 Towards Racial Justice 12 Race Today: ‘Come what may here to stay’ 13 Ten Years on bail: ‘Darcus outta jail’ 14 ‘Thirteen Dead and Nothing Said’ 15 Insurrection 16 Carnival: Revolutionaries Don’t Wear Glitter 17 Playing Devil’s Advocate 18 Slave Nation 19 Fight to the Finish Bibliography Index
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Partridge Singapore Full of Jewish Promise and Spiritual Adventures Background of Israelis the Jewish Religion the Land and the Bible
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AuthorHouse Wedding Traditions from Around the World
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University Press of Mississippi Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Book SynopsisEssays that explore how patronage and sexism marginalised women artists
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Tearing Down the Lost Cause The Removal of New
Book SynopsisExamines New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War. The book opens and closes with the dramatic removal of the city's Confederate statues. While the book is a narrative of the rise and fall of the four monuments, it is also about a city engaging history.Trade ReviewThis well-researched book puts into historical context the useful discussion we had in New Orleans about removing Confederate monuments. It is important for us to understand history, to memorialize it, and to continually reassess it. This can be a difficult balance. James Gill and Howard Hunter do a judicious job of listening to all perspectives. Tearing Down the Lost Cause is a highly readable match of narrative history and journalism at its best—probing, dispassionate, with a seasoned take on historical memory warped by myth. Beyond its appeal to general readers, James Gill and Howard Hunter have delivered a gift to college professors and high school teachers tasked with giving young people a fair-minded viewfinder on raging issues of our day and the long arc of justice. Fraught with hard feeling, the subject of the Lost Cause and fallen monuments nowadays is almost guaranteed to end in daggers drawn. So, it’s refreshing to discover a narrative that manages to stay evenhanded without pulling punches. Tearing Down the Lost Cause is how history is supposed to be written. James Gill and Howard Hunter revisit the bygone days surrounding New Orleans’s Civil War statuary. In so doing, expertly and without fanfare, they nudge us closer to common ground. The fact that it looks increasingly unattainable is all the more reason for making the effort. A must read. As if untangling Mardi Gras beads, Gill and Hunter deftly deconstruct the bruising history behind the removal of the New Orleans Confederate monuments: a satisfying read.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Black Panther Interrogating a Cultural
Book SynopsisBlack Panther is one of the most successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. Terence McSweeney explores the film from a range of perspectives, seeing it not only as a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to African and African American studies.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.
Book SynopsisJerry Ward Jr has published nonfiction, literary criticism, encyclopedias, anthologies, and poetry. He is also a respected scholar with a specialty in African American literature. This volume offers an account of Ward’s responses to questions about literature, literary criticism, teaching, writing, civil rights, Black aesthetics, race and culture.
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Bloomsbury Academic Force Religion and the Quest for African American Justice
Book SynopsisDaniel A. Morris is Associate Professor or Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy at Norwich University, USA.
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Xlibris Generation B
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Authorhouse Christ & Caribbean Culture(s): A Collection of Essays on Caribbean Christology and Its Pastoral Implications
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1517 Media Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic
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