Cultural Literature

"Tracks Along the Left Coast more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo's legacy." --Rain Taxi "Schelling's biography of Jaime de Angulo--'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo, ' among other things--presents a...

Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native...

The fate of poor and working-class African Americans-who are unquestionably represented among neoliberalism's victims-is inextricably linked to that of other poor and working-class Americans Reed contends that the road to a more just society for African...

The boisterous freedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself. Those who would fight freedom's enemies, from political correctness to corporate intimidation to outright...

Dr. Bobby Jones, host of BET's Bobby Jones Gospel and Video Gospel, joins nineteen acclaimed gospel performers who share personal stories celebrating God's glory. Includes stories from superstars Kirk Franklin, John P. Kee, Shirley Caesar, Rev. James...

Like most kids, teachers asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. That question was hard to answer as a black girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s. When I tried to look back beyond my grandmother to understand my family's past, there was an ugly...

Here at last is a comprehensive study that examines, via an extensive review of the literature, the psychological variables that contribute to black-on-black male adolescent homicides. And here also are clear direction signs for the future research that...

Too Heavy a Load celebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, Deborah Gray White also...

Judy Fambrough-Billingsley bares her soul and describes the transformation experienced in her quest to find both birth parents after being abandoned to live in a kinderheim until adopted. From a childhood in Germany shortly after the war to adulthood in...

Tonight at Noon is a story of love between American opposites: she, a product of privilege, a Smith College graduate who worked as a journalist in Europe and in New York; he, an authentic jazz master, a brilliant, eccentric, difficult artist, a scion of...

West Africa, 1971. Two old friends rendezvous in Black Star Square, the heart of Accra, the Ghanaian capital, to see Ike and Tina Turner, the Staples Singers, Roberta Flack, Wilson Picket, Santana and other black American performers at the mammoth Soul...

Living in a world of darkness caused Dionna to tailspin into self-harming behavior. Cutting became Dionna's go-to behavior. The self-harming behavior eventually got her court-ordered to the Arizona State Hospital, where drugs and takedowns were a...