{"product_id":"of-one-blood-pauline-hopkins","title":"Of One Blood \/ Pauline Hopkins","description":"\u003cp\u003eWashington Square Press, 2004. Trade pb. Remainder. VG. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf One Blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be the most prolific African-American woman writer and the most influential literary editor of the first decade of the twentieth century, though she is one of the lesser known literary figures of the much lauded Harlem Renaissance.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf One Blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efirst appeared in serial form in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eColored American Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein the November and December 1902 and the January 1903 issues of the publication, during the four-year period that Hopkins served as its editor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHopkins tells the story of Reuel Briggs, a medical student who couldn't care less about being black and appreciating African history, but finds himself in Ethiopia on an archaeological trip. His motive is to raid the country of lost treasures - which he does find in the ancient land. However, he discovers much more than he bargained for: the painful truth about blood, race, and the half of his history that was never told. Hopkins wrote the novel intending, in her own words, to \"raise the stigma of degradation from [the Black] race.\" The title,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf One Blood,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erefers to the biological kinship of all human beings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55958105063590,"sku":null,"price":10.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/ofoneblood.webp?v=1764117152","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/of-one-blood-pauline-hopkins","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}