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Of One Blood - Or, The Hidden Self

English · Paperback / Softback

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b>A mixed-race Harvard medical student stumbles upon a hidden Ethiopian city, the inhabitants of which possess both advanced technologies and mystical powers./b>br>br>Long before Marvel Comics gave us Wakanda, a high-tech African country that has never been colonized, this 1903 novel gave readers Reuel Brigg --a mixed-race Harvard medical student, passing as white, who stumbles upon Telassar. In this long-hidden Ethiopian city, the wise, peaceful inhabitants of which possess both advanced technologies and mystical powers, Reuel discovers the incredible secret of his own birth. Now, he must decide whether to return to the life he’s built, and the woman he loves, back in America--or play a role in helping Telassar take its rightful place on the world stage. Considered one of the earliest articulations of Black internationalism, Of One Blood takes as its theme the notion that race is a social construct perpetuated by racists.;

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Authors Minister Faust, Pauline Hopkins
Publisher The MIT Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 02.08.2022
 
EAN 9780262544290
ISBN 978-0-262-54429-0
No. of pages 260
Dimensions 133 mm x 200 mm x 17 mm
Series MIT Press / Radium Age
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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