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Johnnetta B. Cole
Johnnetta B. Cole

Johnnetta B. Cole is an esteemed American anthropologist born in October 1936. She has conducted extensive research in the field of anthropology, particularly in African and African American cultures. Professor Cole has had a profound impact in both academic and public spheres, focusing on issues of gender, race, and identity. more

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“To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.”

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“It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.”

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