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1953522 |
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OSt |
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20210930192201.0 |
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960829s1997 nyu 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
96043260 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0465001874 |
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(OCoLC)35450531 |
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(OCoLC)ocm35450531 |
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(NNC)1953522 |
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DLC |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
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NNC |
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OrLoB-B |
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| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
HN773.5 |
| Item number |
.R53 1997 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
306/.0967 |
| Edition number |
20 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Richburg, Keith B. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Out of America : |
| Remainder of title |
a black man confronts Africa / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
by Keith B. Richburg. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Basic Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1997. |
| 263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE |
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| Projected publication date |
9702 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 257 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"A New Republic book." |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Nothing in Keith Richburg's long and respected journalistic career at the Washington Post prepared him for what he would encounter as the paper's correspondent in Africa. At first all he could focus on was an Africa he tried his best to explain, a continent where brutal murder had become routine, where dictators and warlords silenced dissent with machine guns and machetes, where local officials sought payoffs for the most routine tasks, and where starvation had become depressingly common. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
But slowly, and with a great deal of personal anguish, this reporter asked a much more difficult question: If this is Africa, what does it mean for me to be an African American? |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
In this provocative and unvarnished account of his three years on the continent of his ancestors, Richburg takes us on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa, and shows how he was forced to confront the divide within himself between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Are these really my people? he wonders. Am I truly an African American? The answer, Richburg finds after much soul-searching, is that black skin is not enough to bind him to Africa and that he is an American first, foremost, and singularly. To those who would romanticize Mother Africa as a black Valhalla, where blacks can walk with dignity and pride, he regrets to report that this is not the reality. He has been there and has witnessed the killings, the repression, the false promises, the horror. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
And in his darkest night of the soul, Richburg looks into his own family's past and concludes, "Thank God. Thank God my nameless ancestor, brought across the ocean in chains and leg irons, made it out alive. Thank God I am an American." |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Richburg, Keith B. |
| General subdivision |
Travel |
| Geographic subdivision |
Africa, Sub-Saharan. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Human rights |
| Geographic subdivision |
Africa, Sub-Saharan. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Africa, Sub-Saharan |
| General subdivision |
Social conditions |
| Chronological subdivision |
1960- |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Africa, Sub-Saharan |
| General subdivision |
Description and travel. |
| 900 ## - EQUIVALENCE OR CROSS-REFERENCE-PERSONAL NAME [LOCAL, CANADA] |
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| Numeration |
TOC |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
