Cultural Literature

Where did Charlie Parker first play with Dizzy Gillespie? What are the coolest clubs in Chicago? Which city has the largest jazz museum? Where is Howlin -- Wolf buried? The answers can be found in The Da Capo Jazz and Blues Lover's Guide to the U.S., an...

The bestselling book revealing why Americans are so fearful, and why we fear the wrong things--now updated for the age of TrumpIn the age of Trump, our society is defined by fear. Indeed, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than...

A private conversation about the culture of education related to Black Americans always yields poignant and sometimes painful truths. As the reader of this text, you are on the receiving end of a personal dialogue based on experiential polemics...

A private conversation about the culture of education related to Black Americans always yields poignant and sometimes painful truths. As the reader of this text, you are on the receiving end of a personal dialogue based on experiential polemics...

In nineteenth-century Australia, the main commentators on race and biological differences were doctors. But the medical profession entertained serious anxieties about the possibility of racial denigration of the white population in the new land, and...

First published in 1935, The Crow Indians offers a concise and accessible introduction to the nineteenth-century world of the Crow Indians. Drawing on interviews with Crow elders in the early twentieth century, Robert H. Lowie showcases many facets of...

Decentralized governance expert Robertson Work calls for decisive action in this critical decade 2020 - 2029. Addressed to 3,000 leaders around the world, these twelve talks given in 2010 - 2019 explore multiple crises and opportunities, an emerging...

A twelve year old stands in front of his sixth grade classroom, beside a science demonstration table with electric switch in his hand. Nobody had ever seen electric light in his village before. With windows closed and the door shut, he turns the light...

After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently...

The Courage of a Single Freckle began as therapeutic writing experience once Dr. Dodson also known as Dr. J, experienced racism in the workplace for the first time. Growing up in Memphis, TN and attending mostly mixed raced schools, Dr. J was pretty...

From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon...

The simple insight that all legally enforceable rights cost money reminds us that freedom is not violated by a government that taxes and spends, but requires it--and requires a citizenry vigilant about how money is allocated. Drawing from these...

"Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers."--Globe and Mail "At a time of growing national chauvinism, Martha Nussbaum's excellent restatement of the...

From one of our preeminent philosophers--winner of the Berggruen Prize--a work that engages critically with important examples of the cosmopolitan ideal from ancient Greece and Rome to the present. The cosmopolitan political tradition in Western thought...

Elijah Anderson, called one of our best urban ethnographers by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the cosmopolitan canopy: the urban islands of civility amid segregated ghettos, suburbs, and ethnic enclaves.