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Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC  27516
919-942-1740
http://internationalistbooks.org/

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THURSDAY, 26 OCTOBER, 7PM: RAFAEL HERNANDEZ DISCUSSES CUBA

Chapel Hill, NC - On Thursday, October 26th at 7pm, noted Cuban scholar 
and author Rafael Hernandez will discuss his book LOOKING AT CUBA: 
ESSAYS ON CULTURE AND CIVIL SOCIETY at Internationalist Books and 
Community Center (www.internationalistbooks.org) -- 405 West Franklin 
Street.

Hernandez is the 2006-2007 Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin 
American Studies at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin 
American Studies. Hernandez addresses such controversies as the current 
social diversity brought about by socialist policies, the presence of 
well-educated new generations, and the emergence of growing inequality 
that accompanied and has followed the crisis of the 1990s. He also 
discusses the role played by Fidel Castro in this transitional period; 
Cuban foreign relations; the revival of religious practices on the 
island; the new debate over racial prejudice and discrimination; the new 
environment for artistic freedom of expression; and the future of Cuba 
after Castro.

The Multicultural Review says, "This collection of essays is by one of 
Cuba's most brilliant contemporary essayists, a scholar who has 
prospered within the island's intelligentsia and as such is allowed to 
travel abroad, to live in the comfort of academia, and to criticize 
Cuba's political structure. That is exactly what he does in this 
challenging book."

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THURSDAY, 02 NOV, 7-9PM: INTERNATIONALIST BOOKS 25TH ANNIVERSARY &
CAKE AUCTION

Come join us at Open Eye Café for a good time, good people, and good
cakes. We’ll be celebrating our twenty-five years of activism and
twenty-five years of community support. We’ll also be auctioning off
twenty-five cakes, of all shapes and types (some vegan!). Join us for a
fun evening of cake, coffee, and sparkling wine, as well as friends and
community.

Are you a good cook? Are you an OK cook? Want to try your skills out for
the first-ish time? Bake us a cake! Email daniel AT internationalistbooks.org.

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THURSDAY, 09 NOV, 7PM: RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT!

Local author Larry Reni Thomas, whose Associated Press photograph was
featured in a June 2006 Washington Post article on The Wilmington Race
Riot of 1898 report, is scheduled to appear at The Internationalist Book
Store, 405 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 9,
2006, from 7 pm to 9pm,  on the eve of the 108th anniversary of the
Wilmington Race/Coup of 1898, to read from and sign copies of  his two
books:  The True Story Behind the Wilmington Ten  and Rabbit!  Rabbit!
Rabbit!:  A  Fictional Account of the  Wilmington Ten Incident.  Thomas,
a  Wilmington native, has a M.A. in History from UNC- Chapel Hill and is
the founder of  ICROW1898, INC.  (The International Organization for
Compensation and Reparations for the Victims of the Wilmington Race
Riot/Coup of 1898, Inc.).  He was one of the first to advocate
compensation for the victims of that event.

RABBIT!  RABBIT!  RABBIT!  : A SAGA OF THE WILMINGTON TEN INCIDENT OF
1971 is a fictional account of the incident based on interviews he
conducted in the late 1970s while a history graduate student at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   The book is an
easy-to-read, exciting, chilling, sometimes funny, imaginary tale and
shows the consequences of a group of inexperienced individuals who
played with "revolution," or what some of them  thought was an organized
serious effort to change the status quo of a small, isolated Southern
city. The saga takes place when most of the racial violence of the 1960s
had ceased.  The incident was noteworthy, not only because it happened
late, but because it showed how a community, divided along generational
and racial lines, dealt with four days of widespread terror that changed
the course of the city's history.