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This week's featured author is: ✨LaNitra Berger ✨ ⁠

For Black History Month, I highly recommend Gabrielle Simon Edgbcomb's book, FROM SWASTIKA TO JIM CROW: REFUGEE SCHOLARS AT BLACK COLLEGES (Krieger 1993). This book is a gripping historical study of how German-Jewish refugee scholars fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s and found teaching positions at Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), such as Howard, Fisk, and Xavier Universities, among many others. These scholars not only trained the next generation of Black scientists, historians, artists, sociologists, and other professionals, but they also encouraged HBCU students to protest segregation in the Jim Crow South. Edgcomb herself was a Jewish refugee, and her writing style is both personal and compelling. The foreword was written by John Hope Franklin, the renown Duke University African-American history scholar who survived the 1921 Tulsa race riot as a child. This is a forgotten, but important example of how Black and Jewish people worked together to support each other in the struggle for civil and human rights.⁠

Make sure to check out @lanitraberger's incredible book IRMA STERN AND THE RACIAL PARADOX OF SOUTH AFRICAN MODERN ART here

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