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# 2024-07-21 - Of One Blood by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins | |
To use pop culture references, this book reminded me of the | |
Black Panther movie and also of Indiana Jones. I enjoyed the | |
elements of adventure and travel in this story. The protagonist is a | |
white-passing African American man named Reuel, which is Hebrew for | |
Friend Of God. The book brings to mind the Lost World genre, and i | |
read it described as Afrotopian. It was a relatively quick read. | |
gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Lost_world | |
From the Wikipedia article about this novel: | |
The novel's title was inspired by Acts 17:26 in the Bible: | |
> Of one blood I made all nations of man to dwell upon the whole face | |
> of the earth (...) No man can draw the dividing line between the | |
> two races, for they are both of one blood! | |
And to quote the novel itself: | |
> Caste prejudice, race pride, boundless wealth, scintillating | |
> intellects refined by all the arts of the intellectual world, are | |
> but puppets in His hand, for His promises stand, and He will prove | |
> His words, "Of one blood have I made all races of men." | |
author: Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth) | |
detail: gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Of_One_Blood_(novel) | |
LOC: PS1999.H4226 O36 | |
source: gopher://gopher.pglaf.org/1/6/9/2/5/69255/ | |
tags: ebook,fantasy,fiction,race | |
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