imagination / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay
Locating a text : implications of Afrocentric theory /
Molefi Kete Asante
Refusing to be boxed in : Sonia Sanchez's transformation of
the Haiku form / Frenzella Elaine De Lancey
Reassessing African American literature through an
Afrocentric paradigm : Zora N. Hurston and James Baldwin
/ Carolyn L. Holmes
Cultural and linguistic transitions : the comparative case
of African Americans and ethnic minorities in Germany /
Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay
African languages in the African American experience /
Alamin Mazrui
Kitchen table talk : J. California Cooper's use of
Nommo-female bonding and transcendence / Barbara J.
Marshall.
Dilemma of the dutiful servant : the poetry of Jupiter
Hammon / Lonnell E. Johnson
The blue/black poetics of Sonia Sanchez / Regina B.
Jennings
Afrocentric aesthetics in selected Harlem Renaissance
poetry / Abu Shardow Abarry
Folk idiom in the literary expression of two African
American authors : Rita Dove and Yusef Komunyakaa /
Kirkland C. Jones
From nice colored girl to womanist : an exploration of
develoment in Ntozake Shange's writings / Geta LeSeur
De Jure Maurorum in Europa (on the rights of Blacks in
Europe) : a Black civil rights activist in Europe in the
eighteenth century / Reginald Bess
The African American imagination in language and literature
: an afterword / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS153.N5 L36 1992
Status: Available
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Author: Iverem, Esther, 1960-
Title: The time : portrait of a journey home / poems and
photographs by Esther Iverem.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c1993.
Description: 85 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3559.V34 T5 1993
Status: Available
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Author: Osbey, Brenda Marie.
Title: Ceremony for Minneconjoux : poems / by Brenda Marie Osbey.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women--Louisiana--New Orleans--Poetry.
Publisher: Lexington : University of Kentucky, 1983.
Description: 86 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Series: Callaloo poetry series ; v. 2
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3565.S33 C4 1983
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Napier, Winston, 1953-
Title: African American literary theory : a reader / edited by
Winston Napier.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American literature--African American authors--History and
criticism--Theory, etc.
African Americans in literature.
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, c2000.
Description: xiv, 730 p. ; 26 cm.
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 673-690) and index.
Table of Contents: Criteria of Negro art / W.E.B. DuBois
The Negro-art Hokum / G.S. Schuyler
The Negro artist and the racial mountain / L. Hughes
Characteristics of Negro expression / Z.N. Hurston
Blueprint for Negro writing / R. Wright
What White publishers won't print / Z.N. Hurston
Self-criticism / A. Locke
Expressive language / LeRoi Jones
Brave words for a startling occasion / R. Ellison
And Shine swam on / L. Neal
The Black writer and his role / C.F. Gerald
Some reflections on the Black aesthetic / L. Neal
Cultural strangulation / A. Gayle, Jr.
Inside the funk shop / S.E. Henderson
Saturation: progress report on a theory of Black poetry /
S.E. Henderson
On the criticism of Black American literature / H.A. Baker,
Jr.
Toward a Black feminist criticism / B. Smith
Preface to blackness / H.L. Gates, Jr.
New directions for black feminist criticism / D.E. McDowell
Generational shifts and the recent criticism of
Afro-American literature / H.A. Baker, Jr.
Some implications of womanist theory / S.A. Williams
Belief, theory and Blues / H.A. Baker, Jr.
Woman's era: rethinking Black feminist theory / H.V. Carby
Mama's baby, papa's maybe / H.J. Spillers
The race for theory / B. Christian
The Black canon / J.A. Joyce
"What's love got to do with it?": critical theory,
integrity and the Black idiom / H.L. Gates, Jr.
In dubious battle / H.A. Baker, Jr.
"Who the cap fit": unconsciousness and unconscionableness
in the criticism of Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Henry
Louis Gates, Jr. / J.A. Joyce
Appropriative gesture: theory and Afro-American literary
criticism / Michael Awkward
Introduction to The signifying monkey / H.L. Gates, Jr.
Speaking in tongues / M.G. Henderson
Black feminist theory and the representation of the "other"
/ V. Smith
Revision and (re)membrance: a theory of literary structures
in literature by African-American women writers / K.F.C.
Holloway
Toward a Black gay aesthetic / C.I. Nero
Theoretical returns / H.A. Baker, Jr.
Phallus(ies) of interpretation / A. duCille
Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the
1960s / P.B. Harper
The problems with silence and exclusiveness in the African
American literary community / J.A. Joyce
Black (w)holes and the geometry of Black female sexuality /
E. Hammonds
Some glances at the Black fag / M.B. Ross
The crisis in Black American literary criticism and the
postmodern cures of Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Henry
Louis Gates, Jr. / S. Adell
A Black man's place in Black feminist criticism / M.
Awkward
Black feminist thinking / D.E. McDowell
"All the things you could be by now, if sigmund freud's
wife was your mother": psychoanalysis and race / H.J.
Spillers
Tearing the goat's flesh: homosexuality, abjection and the
production of a late twentieth-century Black masculinity
/ R.F. Reid-Pharr
African signs and spirit writing / H. Mullen
Mapping the interstices between Afro-American cultural
discourse and cultural studies / W. Lubiano
Cultural narratives passed on: African American mourning
stories / K.F.C. Holloway
Introduction to Race men: the W.E.B. DuBois lectures / H.V.
Carby
Malcolm's conk and Danto's colors; or, four logical
petitions concerning race, beauty and aesthetics / P.C.
Taylor.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS153.N5 A335 2000
Status: Available
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Author: Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-
Other Author(s): Dove, Rita.
Title: Domestic work : poems / by Natasha Trethewey ; selected and
introduced by Rita Dove.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2000.
Description: xii, 58 p. ; 23 cm.
General Notes: "Winner of the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize."
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3570.R433 D66 2000
Status: Available
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Author: March, Joseph Moncure
Title: The set-up, by Joseph Moncure March.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American athletes--Poetry.
Publisher: New York, Covici Friede, 1928.
Description: 3 p.l., 3-184 p. illus. 24 cm.
General Notes: In verse.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: 811.5 M331 Os
Status: If item is not on shelf, ask at circulation desk
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Author: Clarke, Cheryl, 1947-
Title: Narratives : poems in the tradition of Black women / by
Cheryl Clarke ; [drawings by Gay Belknap (Gaia)].
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: New York : Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, c1983.
Description: 2nd ed.
v, 55 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3553.L314 N3 1983
Holdings: copy 1-2
Status: Available
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Author: Mitchell, Gwendolyn A. (Gwendolyn Ann), 1955-
Title: House of women / Gwendolyn A. Mitchell.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Third World Press, c2002.
Description: 83 p. ; 22 cm.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3563.I763 H68 2002
Status: Available
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Author: Ahmad, Anjail Rashida.
Title: Necessary kindling : poems / Anjail Rashida Ahmad.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Description: viii, 54 p. ; 23 cm.
Table of Contents: the poet
thorn in the side of the rose
what some women wear in their bones
in these still vital moments
on the day after ...
namesake
in the august before sputnik orbits its great metallic eye
over the earth
the griot brings us the blues and lifts us into the realm
of jazz
a wound's deeper kiss
moving between worlds
the empty nest
atoning
afterglow
the primary loss
step by step
breach
meager wishes
a room full of light
if heaven is here ...
going to the well
bastard
birthmark
apple picking
sunstroke
the light arrives at an oblique angle
necessary kindling
stasis
papa's maybe
thirty-five and a half weeks
the whipping
son
making the grade
sunday
atonement
uneven tide
on the fire trail.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3551.H68 N43 2001
Status: Available
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Author: D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960-
Title: Bloodlines / Fred D'Aguiar.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Racially mixed people--Poetry.
African American families--Poetry.
Women slaves--Poetry.
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 2000.
Description: 161 p. ; 23 cm.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PR9320.9.D34 B57 2000
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Hanshaw, Shirley A. J.
Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies.
Title: Lines around her blackness / edited by Shirley A.J. Hanshaw
for the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: [S.l.] : Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies,
c1980.
Description: 24 p. ; 22 cm.
General Notes: Poems.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS595.W6 L5
Status: Available
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Author: Williams, Crystal, 1970-
Title: Kin : poems / by Crystal Williams.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Interracial marriage--United States--Poetry.
Adoptees--United States--Poetry.
Family--United States--Poetry.
African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2000.
Description: xii, 76 p. ; 23 cm.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3573.I448414 K56 2000
Status: Available
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Author: Dove, Rita.
Title: On the bus with Rosa Parks : poems / Rita Dove.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women civil rights workers--Poetry.
Civil rights movements--United States--Poetry.
African Americans--Civil rights--Poetry.
African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: New York : Norton, c1999.
Description: 1st ed.
95 p. ; 22 cm.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3554.O884 O52 1999
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.
Rushing, Andrea Benton.
Title: Women in Africa and the African diaspora : a reader /
edited by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Andrea Benton
Rushing.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Women--Africa--Social conditions.
Feminism--Africa.
African American women--Social conditions.
Women, Black--Social conditions.
Publisher: Washington, DC : Howard University Press, 1996.
Description: 2nd ed.
xxvi, 286 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents: African feminism: a worldwide perspective / Filomina Chioma
Steady
African feminism: a theoretical approach to the history of
women in the African diaspora / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Anthropological research methods for the study of black
women in the Caribbean / A. Lynn Bolles
Psychological research methods: women in the African
diaspora / Saundra Murray Nettles
The "status of women" in indigenous African societies /
Niara Sudarkasa
African-American women missionaries confront the African
way of life / Sylvia M. Jacobs
Privilege without power: women in African cults and
churches / Bennetta Jules-Rosette
On becoming a feminist: learning from Africa / Andrea
Benton Rushing
Extended family involvement of urban Kenyan professional
women / Harriette Pipes McAdoo and Miriam K. Were
Women field workers in Jamaica during slavery / Lucille
Mathurin Mair
To be gifted, female, and black / Darlene Clark Hine
God's divas: women singers in African-American poetry /
Andrea Benton Rushing
The Feast of Good Death: an Afro-Catholic emancipation
celebration in Brazil / Sheila S. Walker
Slavery and women in Africa and the diaspora / Rosalyn
Terborg-Penn
The black female presence in black Francophone literature /
Karen Smyley Wallace
Images of black women in New World literature: a
comparative approach / Martha K. Cobb
Afra-Hispanic writers and feminist discourse / Miriam
DeCosta-Willis
African diaspora women: the making of cultural workers /
Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: HQ1787 .W65 1996
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Wideman, Daniel J.
Preston, Rohan B.
Title: Soulfires : young Black men on love and violence / edited
by Daniel J. Wideman and Rohan B. Preston ;
[introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.].
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American men.
African American men--Correspondence.
African American men--Poetry.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1996.
Description: xxiii, 398 p. ; 21 cm.
General Notes: "A Penguin original"--Label on p. [4] of cover.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: E185.86 .D57 1996
Status: Available
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Author: McElroy, Colleen J.
Title: A long way from St. Louie : travel memoirs / Colleen J.
McElroy.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): McElroy, Colleen J.--Travel.
African American women--Poetry.
African American women poets--20th century--Travel.
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press, c1997.
Description: viii, 241 p. ; 23 cm.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3563.A2925 L66 1997
Status: Available
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Author: Thomas, Lorenzo, 1944-
Title: Extraordinary measures : Afrocentric modernism and
twentieth-century American poetry / Lorenzo Thomas.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors--History and
criticism.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
American poetry--African influences.
African Americans in literature.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000.
Description: xiv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series: Modern and contemporary poetics
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-260) and
index.
Table of Contents: Fenton Johnson : the high cost of militance
William Stanley Braithwaite and Harriet Monroe : the battle
for new poetry
Margaret Walker and the contest to define America
Literary criticism and the color line : Melvin B. Tolson's
eloquent accomodations
Roots of the Black Arts movement : New York in the 1960s
Amiri Baraka : gathering the spirits
A change is gonna come : Black voices of Louisiana
Neon griot : the functional role of poetry readings
At the edge of the twenty-first century.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS310.N4 T48 2000
Status: Checked-out - Due on 10/14/2004
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Other Author(s): Higgs, Catherine.
Moss, Barbara A.
Ferguson, Earline Rae, 1946-
Title: Stepping forward : Black women in Africa and the Americas /
edited by Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss, Earline Rae
Ferguson.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Women, Black--Social conditions--Cross-cultural studies
--Congresses.
Women, Black--Africa--History--Congresses.
Women, Black--Africa--Social conditions--Congresses.
African American women--History--Congresses.
African American women--Social conditions--Congresses.
Women, Black--Jamaica--History--Congresses.
Women, Black--Jamaica--Social conditions--Congresses.
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2002.
Description: xxiii, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Notes: Papers from a conference held at the University of
Tennessee from September 15-18, 1999, and funded by the
Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Tennessee.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-311) and index.
Table of Contents: Introduction / Catherine Higgs and Barbara A. Moss
Ch. 1. British Colonial Policy toward Education and the
Roots of Gender Inequality in Sierra Leone, 1896-1961 /
Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley
Ch. 2. Agency and Constructions of Professional Identity:
African American Women Educators in the Rural South /
Valinda W. Littlefield
Ch. 3. The Search for Anna Erskine: African American Women
in Nineteenth-Century Liberia / Nemata Blyden
Ch. 4. Image and Representation: Black Women in Historical
Accounts of Colonial Jamaica / Verene A. Shepherd
Ch. 5. Helping Ourselves: Black Women and Grassroots
Activism in Segregated South Africa, 1922-1952 /
Catherine Higgs
Ch. 6. African American Clubwomen and the Indianapolis
NAACP, 1912-1914 / Earline Rae Ferguson
Ch. 7. Witchcraft, Women, and Taxes in the Transkei, South
Africa, 1930-1963 / Sean Redding
Ch. 8. "Mwen na rien, Msieu": Jamaica Kincaid and the
Problem of a Creole Gnosis / Rhonda Cobbam
Ch. 9. No Place to Call Home: Refugee and Internally
Displaced Women in Kenya / Cassandra R. Veney
Ch. 10. "The Sisters and Mothers Are Called to the City":
African American Women and an Even Greater Migration /
Leslie Brown
Ch. 11. Mai Chaza and the Politics of Motherhood in
Colonial Zimbabwe / Barbara A. Moss
Ch. 12. Standing Their Ground: Black Women's Sacred Daily
Life / Fayth M. Parks
Ch. 13. Gender and Political Struggle in Kenya, 1948-1998 /
Cora A. Presley
Ch. 14. "The lady folk is a doer": Women and the Civil
Rights Movement in Claiborne County, Mississippi /
Emilye Crosby
Ch. 15. Strategies for Survival by Luo Female Artists in
the Rural Environment in Kenya / Patricia Achieng Opondo
Ch. 16. Wild and Holy Women in the Poetry of Brenda Marie
Osbey / Andrea Benton Rushing
Ch. 17. Owning What We Know: Racial Controversies in South
African Feminism, 1991-1998 / Teresa Barnes
Ch. 18. Decolonizing Culture: The Media, Black Women, and
Law / Deseriee Kennedy.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: HQ1161 .S74 2002
Status: Available
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Author: Giovanni, Nikki.
Title: Quilting the black-eyed pea : poems and not quite poems /
Nikki Giovanni.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, c2002.
Description: 1st ed.
xii, 110 p. ; 24 cm.
Table of Contents: Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea
Possum Crossing
A Robin's Nest in Snow
The Wind in the Bottle
Rosa Parks
What We Miss
In the Spirit of Martin
BLK History Month
Shoulders Are For Emergencies Only
I Always Think of Meatloaf
Symphony of the Sphinx
Cal Johnson Park in Knoxville, Tennessee
Aunt Daughter and That Glorious Song
Blackberry Cobbler
The Son of the Sun
No Complaints
Here's to Gwen
The train to Knoxville
Twenty Reasons to Love Richard Williams
Another Aretha Poem
Ann's Poem
A Community of Clouds
Swinging on a Rainbow
For Tony and Betty
Word Olympics
Desperate Acts
9:11:01 He Blew It
The Self-Evident Poem
Have Dinner with Me
My America
The Girls in the Circle
The Meadow Throws A Birthday Party
A Very Special Christmas
Bring On The Bombs
Making James Baldwin
Beamer Ball
Susan Smith
Emerson Edward Rudd
Art Sanctuary
Sanctuary: For Harry Potter the Movie
From Whence Cometh My Help
A Miracle for Me
A Deer in Headlights
The Nashville Connection
Redfish, Eels, and Heidi
In Praise of a Teacher
Don't Think
The Song of the Feet.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3557.I55 Q46 2002
Status: Checked-out (renewed) - Due on 08/15/2004
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Author: Mullen, Harryette Romell.
Title: Blues baby : early poems / Harryette Mullen.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: Lewisburg, [PA] : Bucknell University Press, c2002.
Description: 146 p. ; 24 cm.
Series: The Bucknell series in contemporary poetry
Table of Contents: To A Woman
Alabama Memories
Heritage
Eyes in the Back of Her Head
Momma Sayings
Me & Steenie
The Ritual of Ear Piercing
Saturday Afternoon, When Chores are Done
My Grandmother
Heirloom
For My Grandfather, Lowell Paxter Mitchell
Tent Revival
A Black Woman Never Faints
Father (Part 1)
Waiting for the Next Star to Fall
Some Light to Hold in My Hands
Floorwax Mother
Bete Noire
The Lamp Lights into its Prey
After the Rain
Jump City
La Terrorista
Shuddering
The Mother of Nightmares
Miss Persephone
The People of Atlantis
The Night We Slept on the Beach
Pineapple
Shedding Skin
Stirrings
The Joy
Aura
Country Boy
Roadmap
The Astronaut of Innerspace
Moonstalk
Striptease
He Reads my Body like a Poem
Anatomy
El Mal Ojo
Recipes
Las Locas
Playing the Invisible Saxophone en el Combo de las
Estrellas
Pensando en la Muerte
Wings Against the Blue
The Woman and the Roses
Song of a Dancer
The Dance She Does
Madonna
Affirmation
Tree
Tree Tall Woman
Circle of Arms
Painting Myself a New Mirror
Blues Baby
Juju to Remind You
Wild Rose
Blues Consultant
Invocation
Morgan David Blues
Taking the Lord's Name in Vain
Spirits in My Head
Sweet Brown Molasses
Apple Green
Strangers
Going, Going, Gone
Pretty Piece of Tail
With Two Hands
Essence of Roses
A Brand of Love
Victimless Crime
Cartoon Men
La Charmeuse de Serpentes
Old Mugger Blues
Hungry Man Blues
What's Decent These Days
Answers to Her Own Name
Omnivore
Woman Circle
The Body of the Mother
Mujer de Volcanes y Terremotos
Anger
Signification
The Locksmith
Dyslexia
For the Bearers
Call Me By My Name
Dissolve
Cooldown
Magic Blues
Dust Motes
No Good
Black Dreams
One of Them Kind
Dream Dance
Of Two Minds
Mirror Dance
Amnesia
Pharmacopeia
Siren #1
Siren #2
The Siren's Song
In Love with Drowning
EEG
The Greyhound Sound
A Woman is Dreaming
Fable
You Who Walked Through the Fire
Through the Moon
Unspoken
Unable to Grasp the Meaning
She Landed on the Moon.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3563.U3954 B58 2002
Status: Available
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