{"product_id":"of-one-blood-isbn-9780262544290","title":"Of One Blood","description":"\u003cb\u003eA mixed-race Harvard medical student stumbles upon a hidden Ethiopian city, the inhabitants of which possess both advanced technologies and mystical powers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong before Marvel Comics gave us Wakanda, a high-tech African country that has never been colonized, this 1903 novel gave readers Reuel Briggs—a mixed-race Harvard medical student, passing as white, who stumbles upon Telassar. In this long-hidden Ethiopian city, the wise, peaceful inhabitants of which possess both advanced technologies and mystical powers, Reuel discovers the incredible secret of his own birth. Now, he must decide whether to return to the life he’s built, and the woman he loves, back in America—or play a role in helping Telassar take its rightful place on the world stage. Considered one of the earliest articulations of Black internationalism, \u003ci\u003eOf One Blood\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its theme the notion that race is a social construct perpetuated by racists.Series Foreword ix\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Afritopian Cryptopolis xv\u003cbr\u003eMinister Faust\u003cbr\u003eChapter I 1\u003cbr\u003eChapter II 11\u003cbr\u003eChapter III 17\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV 27\u003cbr\u003eChapter V 39\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI 49\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII 59\u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII 69\u003cbr\u003eChapter IX 77\u003cbr\u003eChapter X 83\u003cbr\u003eChapter XI 97\u003cbr\u003eChapter XII 105\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIII 117\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIV 123\u003cbr\u003eChapter XV 133\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVI 145\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVII 159\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVIII 169\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIX 183\u003cbr\u003eChapter XX 189\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXI 197\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXII 205\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXIII 209\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXIV 217\"Hopkins was a pioneering Black intellectual, playwright and magazine editor who used her considerable literary talents to rally support for the cause of racial justice. In 'Of One Blood,' the last of her four novels, she blends multiple subgenres into what is an exceptionally entertaining work of popular fiction, albeit one with a serious subtext: race.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Helps to tell a story of Black American literature that reflects the infinite number of ways of being Black in America — and of being in the world. . . This sprawling work of speculative fiction resists paraphrase, but what’s important is that it helped spawn a vast contemporary tradition.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hopkins’ fiction innovated in its time with lasting impact. It planted imaginative seeds that sprouted far down the next century of storytelling. . . . In short, she was a powerhouse, an innovator and an intellectual dynamo.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Ms.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hopkins … transports readers to a technologically advanced, hidden city in Ethiopia that’s remained free of colonialist influences and oppression.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Transfer Orbit\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf One Blood\u003c\/i\u003e returns in this new edition, celebrating a seminal work of Black speculative fiction. Over a century since its original publication, Hopkins’s classic remains as relevant today as ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—P. Djèlí Clark, author of\u003ci\u003e Ring Shout\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDeals in no uncertain terms with both the temporal and spiritual solution of the greatest question of the age—The Negro.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Colored American Magazine (1902)\u003c\/b\u003ePauline Hopkins (1859–1930), an African American journalist and editor of Boston’s \u003ci\u003eThe Colored American Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, was the author of four novels: \u003ci\u003eContending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South\u003c\/i\u003e (1900), \u003ci\u003eHagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e (1901–1902), \u003ci\u003eWinona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest \u003c\/i\u003e(1902–1903), and \u003ci\u003eOf One Blood\u003c\/i\u003e (1903). Her work illuminated African history, racial injustice, and women’s liberation, earning her a reputation as a key public intellectual of her time. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMinister Faust is best known as author of \u003ci\u003eThe Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad\u003c\/i\u003e and 2007’s Kindred Award–winning \u003ci\u003eFrom the Notebooks of Dr. Brain\u003c\/i\u003e (retitled \u003ci\u003eShrinking the Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e). which also received the Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation. An award-winning journalist, community organizer, teacher, and workshop designer, Faust is also a former television host and producer, radio broadcaster, and podcaster. His 2011 TEDx talk, “The Cure for Death by Smalltalk,” has been viewed more than 840,000 times. ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303438012645,"sku":"NP9780262544290","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544290.jpg?v=1767734015","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/of-one-blood-isbn-9780262544290","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}