Africana
Subtitle: Encyclopedia Of The African And African American Experience (Library of Latin America)
Contributors: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: February 2005
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195223286
First sentence: Rosita, the beautiful lacemaker whose memory is still preserved* by some of the old men and women in the Villa de Oropesa** who admired her unusual beauty, the kindness of her character, and the exquisite lacery that her hands produced, was the guardian angel of my blessed childhood.