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History Lesson

History Lesson A Race Odyssey

Hardback (15 Apr 2008)

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Publisher's Synopsis

In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade. This title tells the disturbing story of what happened when she spoke out.

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Yale University Press

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Book information

ISBN: 9780300126594
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 907.117447
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 336g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 18mm