Other books in the OF THE DIASPORA series:

PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW
by Paule Marshall

Avey Johnson—a Black, middle-aged, middle-class widow—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Suddenly, on a cruise to the Caribbean, she packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. Originally published in 1983, and a recipient of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award.

CAPTIONING THE ARCHIVES:
A CONVERSATION IN
PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXT
Photos by Lester Sloan; text by Aisha Sabatini Sloan

In this father-daughter collaboration, photographer Lester Sloan opened his archive of street photography, portraits, and news photos, and noted essayist Aisha Sabatini Sloan interviewed him, creating rich, probing, dialogue-based captions for more than one hundred photographs.

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