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A work of keen scholarship that will appeal to the general reader responsive to graceful, lucid prose by an author with an eye for ironic situations and complex emotions.

Her stories celebrate, mourn, and honor Latinas, collectively and individually, and also consider the influential men in her own life: the author’s beloved, unknowable, philandering father; the first boy she loved; her heartbreakingly deteriorating grandfather.

At this critical time when the earth is facing environmental catastrophe and it is clear that we need a change of values, this work questions the precept that Western civilization has always been equated with male domination and warfare.

Her work delves into the unheralded inner lives of women through chronicles of migration, urban dislocation and deprivation in borderland arroyos and urban barrios. Cisneros captures the deepest existential concerns and struggles of women.

My first memories are of a place called ‘Mbrom,’ a small neighborhood in Kumasi, capital of Asante, as that kingdom turned from being part of the British Gold Coast colony to being a region of the Republic of Ghana.

Waniek retains the immediacy of this oral legacy through a skillful interweaving of dialect, quotations and first-person narration, and through her matter-of-fact, unadorned speech.

Elaine and Harry Mensh clearly demonstrate that IQ tests have been fundamentally biased from the very beginning. These tests, they argue, serve to maintain the status quo of unequal educational opportunities.

Central to the thinking about the negro in Brazilian society is the myth of racial democracy and the absence of prejudice. […] Florestan Fernandes’ book sets out to dispel this myth.

Hayes specializes in the history of Germany in the 20th century, particularly the Nazi period.

Deloria advocates the ethnic pride fostered by tribalism, which is a covenantal relationship between people, land, and religion that makes each community robust and distinctive.

The story, written as grippingly as a novel, is charged with twists that only nonfiction can deliver [….] This is, writes Greene, a story of ‘large and important things happening in a very little place.’

Carter’s historical investigation traces the struggle for justice of nine Black men falsely accused of raping two white women, a battle that was brought to court in 1930 and was ultimately heard by the Supreme Court of Alabama several years later.

With “Invisible Man,” Ellison simultaneously “defined the historic moment of mid-20th century America” and ‘single-handedly re[wrote] the American novel as an African American adventure in fiction.’

During his years of service at the University of Kansas, Lurie was frequently a visiting or exchange professor at other universities. He also held Fulbright professorships in Argentina, Costa Rico, Mexico, Chile, and Italy.

In ancient times when a man was treated as Leo Frank has been treated people felt that an obscene god was pursuing him. No mortal could be so relentless. No mortal could surround another with such ingenious cruelty. Only a conspiracy of fate could make horror so massive.

Christianity, in the five centuries since its message was first carried to the peoples of the New World—and, in particular, to the natives and the transplanted Africans of English North America and the United States—has been fundamentally racist in its ideology, organization, and practice.

Brooks created a unique poetic voice that grappled with issues of art, identity, race, gender, and the relation between literature and popular culture.

Myrdal came to argue that the “Negro problem” was really a “white problem,” a moral dilemma of a most complex sort that had not only economic dimensions but cultural, political, and structural dimensions as well.

With his emphasis on individual differences and respect for all persons, Dahlstrom devoted significant energy to trying to understand the role of ethnicity in individual functioning and personality assessment.

Angela and I feel when we come back to the Western world that we’ve really lost the important rituals that teach us so many things. We really hope that our book will rekindle an awareness of these values as we all move into the millennium.