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Mark Reese @uzbekmodernist · Nov 4, 2022
  • Answered to Tell me about a nonfiction book that both (1) emotionally moved you as you read it, and (2) permanently changed the way you see the world?
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Fiction/ Non-Fiction: re-read Alex Haley’s Roots while living in Annapolis, the port Haley’s ancestor was sold as a slave. The novel changed the way I understood historical memory and representing, glossing over, our dark past.

Book Aug 17, 1976
Roots
by Alex Haley
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Christy Tidwell @christymtidwell · Sep 14, 2014
  • Curated in 20th Century African American & Native American Narrative (Ph.D. reading list)
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