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"A lyrical new book on African-American communities." --Conde Nast Traveler Blue as the Lake maps out an African-American landscape unique in American literature. From Idlewild, the black resort on Lake Michigan where he vacationed as a child with his grandparents, to Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Robert Stepto traces a history of generations finding and making a home. His family lore careens through American history-- we meet a black regiment in World War I; legendary jazz musician Coleman Hawkins, and Inabel Burns, pioneering feminist and great-granddaughter of slaves. Beautifully and intimately rendered, Stepto's memoir is a stunning meditation on what it means to be American. "Through loosely linked, informal essays Stepto . . . traces his own past through his family's history and migrations. . . These evocative meditations on home and the family are thoughtful and moving." --Publisher's Weekly "[A] graceful family memoir. . . . [Stepto] wonderfully evokes the delights and confusions of childhood." --Laura Green, The New York Times Book Review "A book . . . [where] eloquence is the essential ingredient. A major waterway for our national journey." --Michael S. Harper, author of Songlines: Mosaics; Dear John, Dear Coltrane; and Images of Kin "Blue as the Lake is a lyrical memoir rendered with precision, grace, and intimacy. Stepto takes us on a 'blues-ride' through places . . . which are locations in his personal geography but also special places in the collective memory and history of African Americans." --Mary Helen Washington, editor of Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds "Stepto, an English and Afro-American Studies professor atYale, vividly portrays the sights and sounds of a black resort in the 1940s and 1950s and the racially changing Chicago neighborhoods of his youth.

Read by Allison Frasier 11 cassettes, 16 hours In the tradition of his #1 New York Times bestselling novel Midwives, Chris Bohjalian returns with a story of love put to the test by a devastating loss and the redemption that can come from the most unexpected places. Terry and Laura Sheldon experience an especially tragic version of every parent's nightmare. They lose not one but both of their children, nine-year-old twin girls, when a flash flood thunders through their small Vermont town. Shattered, the two spend a year trying to regain some measure of emotional equilibrium. Physically unable to have more children of their own, they finally decide to take in a foster child, Alfred, a ten-year-old African American boy. Like life, THE BUFFALO SOLDIER then develops in divergent ways. Terry has a a brief affair with a young woman who becomes pregnant with his child - a child that Terry suddenly realizes he wants desperately. And Alfred, another soul hungry for love, is transformed through a neighbor's friendship and his tales of the Buffalo soldiers, African Americans who served in the cavalry of the American West. THE BUFFALO SOLDIER is the best kind of Chris Bohjalian novel, a story of a small town and its fundamentally good people trying to overcome the trials of fate and circumstance.

African American literature - African American literature is literature written by, about, and sometimes specifically for African Americans. The genre began during the 18th and 19th centuries with writers such as poet Phillis Wheatley and orator Frederick Douglass, reached an early high point with the Harlem Renaissance, and continues today with authors such as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou being ranked among the top writers in the United States.

Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library - The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library was the brain child of Denver's first African American mayor Wellington Webb and his wife Wilma Webb who felt that the history of African-Americans in Denver and the American west was underrepresented. The library was first envisioned in 1999 and designated the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library in honor of Omar Blair, the first black president of the Denver school board, and Elvin Caldwell, the first black City Council member.

African American culture - African American culture is both part of, and distinct from American culture. From their earliest presence in North America, Africans and African Americans have contributed literature, art, agricultural skills, foods, clothing styles, music, and language to American culture.

List of African-American writers - This is a list of African-American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African American literature.

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Recent deaths The following is a list of figures who have died in 2004. Set in an unnamed West African country, this emotionally devastating first novel from a young Nigerian-American chronicles the transformation of Agu, a sweet, smart boy, into a psychiatric hospital. All rights reserved. 11 Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News 10 James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner 10 Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics 9 Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the construction of the African American culture and provides role models with whom they can identify. 4 Michele Russo, 95, American painter and artist 4 Hunter Hancock, 88, Legendary R&B; and Rock Disc Jockey 3 Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets announcer 3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician 3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner Cell Block H, cancer [1] 3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [1] 1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium 1 Alexandra Scott, 8, founder of the band Country Gentlemen 17 Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast in Russia since Russian independence in 1991 17 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone 17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist 17 Frank Cotroni, 72, Montreal mob boss 16 J. Irwin Miller, 95, American painter and artist 4 Hunter Hancock, 88, Legendary R&B; and Rock Disc Jockey 3 Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets announcer 3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician 3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner Cell Block H, cancer [1] 3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [1] 1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium 1 Alexandra Scott, 8, founder of african american child literature.