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  1. From the Editor: The Whites’ House
  2. Alejandro de la Fuente
  3. pp. 1-4
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  1. Letters & Opinions
  2. Tope Folarin, Ladan Osman, David Chariandy, Chika Unigwe, Philip Lewis Henderson, Armstrong Williams, Mary Serumaga, Kheven Lee LaGrone, Uchenna Ikediobi
  3. pp. 5-21
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Articles

  1. The Trump Era: hope in a time of escalating despair
  2. Cornel West
  3. pp. 22-41
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Roots Reconsidered

Forty years after the debut of the television miniseries based on Alex Haley’s best-selling novel, guest editors Kellie Carter Jackson and Erica L. Ball offer a look at the global impact of the Roots phenomenon.

  1. Kunta Kinte: the power of a name
  2. Erica L. Ball, Kellie Carter Jackson
  3. pp. 42-46
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  1. Historical Truth and Fiction in the Life of Kunta Kinte
  2. John Thornton
  3. pp. 47-63
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  1. Alex Haley, Storyteller
  2. Matthew Delmont
  3. pp. 64-78
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  1. The Struggle for Land Rights Will Not Be Televised: settler colonialism and Roots down under
  2. Clare Corbould
  3. pp. 79-97
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  1. The Conservative Dispositions of Roots
  2. Raphaël Lambert
  3. pp. 98-112
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  1. Overshadowed by Roots: The Fight Against Slavery
  2. Martin Stollery
  3. pp. 113-122
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  1. What Slaves We Are: narrative, trauma, and power in Kendrick Lamar’s roots
  2. Natalie Graham
  3. pp. 123-132
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  1. From the Roots to the Maple Leaf: a legacy without borders
  2. dann j. Broyld
  3. pp. 133-137
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  1. A Complicated Embrace: Alex Haley’s Roots in Egypt
  2. Ebony E. A. Coletu
  3. pp. 138-149
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  1. The Place beneath Falling Stars
  2. Shannon Joyce Prince
  3. pp. 150-165
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  1. Intruder (Home as a fallacy), and: House daLorde (Home as a dream)
  2. June Beshea
  3. pp. 166-167
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  1. Slices of Memory
  2. Sada Malumfashi
  3. pp. 168-181
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  1. Why It’s Time Schools Stopped Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird
  2. Naa Baako Ako-Adjei
  3. pp. 182-200
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  1. Harvard and Slavery
  2. Sven Beckert, Balraj Gill, Jim Henle, Katherine Stevens
  3. pp. 201-205
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  1. Objects of Kinship: reconstituting descent in the shadow of slavery
  2. Mark Auslander
  3. pp. 206-216
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  3. pp. 229-235
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