American Visions

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Articles in April-May 1997 issue of American Visions

• Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood. - book reviews
  by Catherine Burt
• Maxwell - African American singer
  by Michael George
• Divided Sisters: Bridging the Gap Between Black Women and White Women. - book reviews
  by Catherine Burt
• Earworthy - African and African American sound recording of note
  by Bill Hassan
• Don't Block the Blessings: Revelations of a Lifetime. - book reviews
  by Catherine Burt
• Gullah festivities - South Carolina African American heritage celebrations
  by Bijan C. Bayne
• Embracing the Fire: Sisters Talk About Sex and Relationships. - book reviews
  by Catherine Burt
• Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's life Unveiled. - book reviews
  by Catherine Burt
• Identify matters - people retain identity in the face of the majority culture's attempts at total assimilation - Editorial
  by Gary Puckrein
• Powerful Black Women. - book reviews
  by Catherine Burt
• African Odyssey - festival of African dance, music and theater from Africa and the Diaspora
  by Henry H. Chase
• Rooted Against the Wind. - book reviews
  by Catherine Burt
• Canus africanus: the basenji - barkless hunting dog: forerunners of breeds such as the pharaoh hounds
  by Terri S. Smith
• Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women are Rising to the Top. - book reviews
  by Catherine Burt
• The fiction of Black crime: it's no mystery - African American mystery novelists: includes a reference for source materials
  by Carolyn Tillery
• Sprung. - movie reviews
  by Veronica Mixon
• The Baga and their art - art of a people living in part of Guinea, Museum of African Art, New York, NY; adapted from 'Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention' - Under the Hammer - Cover Story
  by Frederick Lamp
• Family values - Black man and White cousin blood-related through US slavery, meet
  by Irving M. Ward, Jr.