Cultural Literature

What allows African American women not just to survive, but to become resilent? N.Lynne Westfield finds an answer to this question as she examines the Dear Sisters' Literary Group. As a Womanist scholar, Westfield reflects on the ways in which the...

Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all...

The creation of Africa's newest state, South Sudan, in 2011, involved national and international recognition of "traditional authorities", or chiefs. Chiefship has often been misunderstood to be a timeless or non-state institution, but this book argues...

A prosperous Black bourgeois family find their complacent lives shattered when they are taken hostage in their own home by two members of a Black militant group calling itself The Committee.

A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identityElizabeth Martínez's unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores...

(Jazz Piano Solos). 23 standards as played by Brubeck in accessible arrangements to make anyone sound like a jazz expert. Includes: Blue Rondo a La Turk * Bossa Nova U.S.A. * The Duke * I Feel Pretty * In Your Own Sweet Way * It's a Raggy Waltz * The...

DARWIN'S ATHLETES focuses on society's fixation with black athletic achievement. Hoberman argues that this obsession has come to play a troubling role in African American life and our country's race relations. Rich, flamboyant superstars lend credence to...

W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century, published Darkwater -- a powerful collection of essays, verse and fiction -- in 1920, two decades after his most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk. Throughout his long...

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes the ways it relates to race in twenty-first-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards--the American gothic is a macabre tale...

Winner of the Spitz Prize, Conference for the Study of Political ThoughtWinner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award Why do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators often identify some factor--such as single...