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African American Lives
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Authors: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Divided Lives
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Authors: Elsa Walsh
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Despite the large number of books devoted to women's issues in the last twenty years, Washington Post reporter Elsa Walsh felt that the literature was missing a