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Blind Persistence: The History of the Before Columbus Foundation

Blind Persistence: The History of the Before Columbus Foundation

Reed, Ishmael
Desmangles, Justin

Paperback

Series: Baraka Nonfiction

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1771863986
ISBN13: 9781771863988
Publisher: Baraka Books
Published: Nov 1 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.19 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
The Before Columbus Foundation, founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed and others, is dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature. It operates on the premise that storytelling traditions existed thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, which counters the myth that storytelling begins with the Puritan settlement. Puritans weren't even the first Europeans to arrive in North America. It founded the American Book Awards in 1978, which has recognized hundreds of writers who otherwise would have been ignored. Its board of directors includes three MacArthur Fellows, three former U.S. Poet Laureates, three Pulitzer Prize winners, a winner of the Booker Prize, and a recipient of a Presidential medal. BLIND PERSISTENCE is the Before Columbus story as told by a host of leading American poets, novelists, public intellectuals. Contributors include Wajahat Ali, Carolyn Forché, Joy Harjo, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nancy Mercado, Margaret Porter Troupe, Shawn Wong and more

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