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Of One Blood

By Pauline Hopkins
Introduction by Minister Faust

By Pauline Hopkins
Introduction by Minister Faust

By Pauline Hopkins
Introduction by Minister Faust

By Pauline Hopkins
Introduction by Minister Faust

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Part of MIT Press / Radium Age

Category: Science Fiction

Category: Science Fiction

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Aug 02, 2022 | ISBN 9780262544290

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Aug 02, 2022 | ISBN 9780262371148

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    About Of One Blood

    A mixed-race Harvard medical student stumbles upon a hidden Ethiopian city, the inhabitants of which possess both advanced technologies and mystical powers.

    Long 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, Of One Blood takes as its theme the notion that race is a social construct perpetuated by racists. 
     
    Minister Faust is best known as author of The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004) and 2007’s Kindred Award-winning From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (retitled Shrinking the Heroes, it 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.
     

    About Of One Blood

    A mixed-race Harvard medical student stumbles upon a hidden Ethiopian city, the inhabitants of which possess both advanced technologies and mystical powers.

    Long 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, Of One Blood takes as its theme the notion that race is a social construct perpetuated by racists. 
     
    Minister Faust is best known as author of The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004) and 2007’s Kindred Award-winning From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (retitled Shrinking the Heroes, it 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.
     

    Product Details

    Category: Science Fiction

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by The MIT Press
    Aug 02, 2022 | 260 Pages | 5-1/4 x 7-7/8 | ISBN 9780262544290

    Category: Science Fiction

    Ebook | $15.99
    Published by The MIT Press
    Aug 02, 2022 | 260 Pages | 5-1/4 x 7-7/8 | ISBN 9780262371148

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    Praise

    “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.”
    —The Washington Post Book World

    “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.”
    —The New York Times

    “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.”
    —Ms.

    “Hopkins … transports readers to a technologically advanced, hidden city in Ethiopia that’s remained free of colonialist influences and oppression.”
    —Transfer Orbit

    Awards

    New York Times Notable Book AWARD

    Table Of Contents

    Series Foreword ix
    Introduction: The Afritopian Cryptopolis xv
    Minister Faust
    Chapter I 1
    Chapter II 11
    Chapter III 17
    Chapter IV 27
    Chapter V 39
    Chapter VI 49
    Chapter VII 59
    Chapter VIII 69
    Chapter IX 77
    Chapter X 83
    Chapter XI 97
    Chapter XII 105
    Chapter XIII 117
    Chapter XIV 123
    Chapter XV 133
    Chapter XVI 145
    Chapter XVII 159
    Chapter XVIII 169
    Chapter XIX 183
    Chapter XX 189
    Chapter XXI 197
    Chapter XXII 205
    Chapter XXIII 209
    Chapter XXIV 217

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