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264 Columbia Avenue, Holland, MI 49423-3616
Join us as we kick-off our Big Read month! This lecture by Hope College’s Ernest Cole (English department) and Dr. Fred Johnson (History department) will focus on the legacies of slavery in the context of history, culture, and identity. It explores the role of neo-slave narratives in engaging official historical narratives of the past and their representations of the human experience. It examines the attempts of African Americans to negotiate the struggle for integration and gestures to the possibilities of returning to their ancestral homeland, as both a recognition of a hybridized identity with Africans and the projection of an alternate
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