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Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, and grew up in Henning, Tennessee, with maternal relatives who spent many hours telling family stories, some of which extended back to Africa….

Winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture depicts the various ways different societies have responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to…

With tape recorder in hand, Oscar Lewis documented the distinct voices of poverty among Native Americans, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. He writes, “I believe [tape transcription] captures the full flavor…

The myth of Jews as children of the Devil, mysterious, uncanny and possessed of sinister powers, has persisted since the second century, when they were accused of killing Christian children,…

Psychiatrist and humanist Dr. Robert Coles wrote his groundbreaking work, Children in Crisis: A Study in Courage and Fear (Little Brown & Co) in 1968. The study was based on…

Australia’s Aborigines, who have lived on that continent for at least 40,000 years, were until recently considered extremely “primitive.” Today, anthropologists recognize their complex social patterns and rich cosmology, their…

These two volumes by Hugh Honour, a distinguished British art historian, provide an exhaustive survey of European and American depictions of black people in painting and sculpture during the century…

With an eloquence that exemplifies the beauty of the spiritual, Kendrick creates 34 black slave women who relate lives of appalling deprivation in lyrical monologues. Told in an earthy and…

The chapters in this book deal with persistent problems of Jewish identity. Kahler claims these can be fully understood only by awareness of the close interconnection between the singular ethnic…

American photographer Carol Beckwith and Australian photographer Angela Fisher discovered their common pursuit upon their chance meeting in Kenya in 1978: to understand and depict the richness of African culture…

Dahlstrom and Baughman conducted research on achievement and ability in African American and White students in what were then segregated schools in the South. With an emphasis on individual differences…

Walter A. Jackson’s Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience is more than a biographical sketch of a unique political economist. Jackson gracefully examines the development of Myrdal’s thought as a political…

Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas. As an infant she moved with her parents, David and Keziah Wims Brooks, to the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, where she has…

During the survivalist craze of the early 1980’s, extremist political movements were thriving. There was the Christian Patriots Defense League, which insisted that white Americans, not Jews, were God’s chosen…

The story of the Leo Frank case reads like a Greek tragedy. As The New Republic wrote at the time: “In ancient times when a man was treated as Leo…

The great irony of the career of Ralph Ellison, one of the most celebrated of American novelists, may be that when he died at the age of 80, he had…

Stuart Levine was educated at Harvard (AB) and Brown (MA, PhD), and has been a professional concert musician, network music commentator, scholarly author and editor, journal editor, lecturer and teacher….

As a historian of the American South, Dan T. Carter’s writings deal with themes such as regionalism, nationalism, racism, truth, and the law. Carter’s book Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the…