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Black Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week…

With this final volume of his superb biography, Rampersad comes to the racist exclusion and crippling attacks from the right that forced Hughes to scramble for a meager living. Rampersad…

The Silliman Lectures at Yale University have been responsible for many books which have greatly influenced the progress of scientific work in the twentieth century. One of the foremost scientists of…

In 1980 Sheehy found herself in one of life’s passages which she had explored so thoroughly in her book Passages. Providentially, while on assignment in Cambodia, she met Phat Mohm,…

The tightly knit ethnic neighborhoods that defined New York City in the 1930’s and 1940’s produced two men – Nathan Glazer (top photo) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (bottom photo) –…

This acclaimed volume is the first to document the life of the Maya of today, a remarkable people who are the direct heirs to the magnificent Maya culture of Pre-Columbian…

Any work by Harold Isaacs, the author of that great classic, The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, is of considerable interest. And he has not disappointed us. He has written…

The first full-scale sociological survey of the assimilation of minorities in America, this classic work presents significant conclusions about the problems of prejudice and discrimination in America and offers positive…

“I have come to the abstractions of politics through the flesh and blood of individual behavior. I didn’t know what politics was about until I saw it all happening to…

“I’m interested in how men are educated, how women relate to each other, how we are able to love, how we balance political and personal forces, who survives in certain…

The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that all citizens have the right to vote without regard to their “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”…

In The Struggle for Equality, the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson offered an important and timely analysis of the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the…

This authoritative and beautifully written book, by the distinguished president of Brandeis University, was first published in 1930 and now appears in its fifth edition, completely revised and enlarged. As…

Taylor Branch received the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1989 for Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. A sweeping and authoritative examination of the work and days of Rev….

Jim Silver keeps a loaded shotgun in his Oxford, Miss., home. It is not for hunting; it is for protection. For 27 years Silver has spoken out against the segregationist…

The idea of the unity of mankind did not come easily to the Greeks. Its eventual emergence has been ascribed to various sources, not least to Alexander the Great. Baldry…

As a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine and in frequent public appearances throughout the media, Henry Louis Gates Jr. emerged in the mid-1990s as a national spokesperson on…

When Claude Brown wrote his autobiography, Manchild in the Promised Land (1965), he expected to sell 100 copies. Over four million copies later, Manchild remains a classic, echoing the slave…

This book tells the story of Ivory Perry, a black worker and community activist who, for more than thirty years, has distributed the leaflets, carried the picket signs, and planned…