Search Results for: The Life And Afterlife Of Fray Martin De Porres Afroperuvian Saint

This is the first scholarly study of the life of the black Peruvian saint, Martín de Porres (1579-1639).

Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures

Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates

Examines how black intermediaries in colonial Spanish America influenced written portrayals of virtuous and beautiful blackness.

"In May 1962, as the struggle for civil rights heated up in the United States and leaders of the Catholic Church prepared to meet for Vatican Council II, Pope J