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The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalistic Ideas in Europe is a fascinating account of the development of the Aryan myth and European racial ideology. The author’s research…

Walter Mosley was born to an African American father and a Jewish mother in South Central Los Angeles, where he lived until he left for college in Vermont. After college…

Lucy S. Dawidowicz, was a scholar of Jewish life and history whose book The War Against the Jews is widely regarded as a pioneering study of the Nazi genocide. Mrs….

The Arabs is an authoritative firsthand portrait of the character and aspirations of this powerful and mysterious people. Chapters outlining the development of the Arab people and their Islamic religion…

Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original…

Michi Weglyn had great stature in the history of twentieth century civil rights, yet she was a thin, small-framed woman whose self-effacing style masked her determination to bear witness against…

Gordon Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, the son of a tenant farmer and the youngest of 15 children. He left home when he was 16, shortly after his…

Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston laces childhood memories, talk-stories, and Chinese legend with fantastical epic poetry, developing a unique literary form that Ms. critic E.M. Broner describes as “kinesthetic…

One of America’s most uncompromising novelists, Russell Banks received the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1999 for Cloudsplitter, a book about the abolitionist John Brown. Narrated by Brown’s son Owen, the novel…

In June 1997 when President Bill Clinton assembled a seven-member panel to advise him about racial strife in the United States, he chose John Hope Franklin as its chair. This…

John Lewis was one of ten children born to sharecroppers in Pike County, Alabama. He graduated from high school and entered the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, in…

Although Ernest Gaines has spent much of his adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of his work returns to the setting of his southern Louisiana childhood, with…

Author of two award-winning novels, Korean-American author Chang-rae Lee believes that “a good story is a journey of the mind, not a record of fact.”  Lee regards writing as a…

Prominent author, professor, and Palestinian advocate, Edward W. Said was one of the foremost cultural critics of the postwar world. He wrote extensively on history, politics, literature, music and philosophy….

Lucille Clifton grew up in a home filled with books and poetry by African American authors. Her father labored in the steel mills while her mother worked as a laundress,…

The life of scholar, philosopher, activist and historian, W.E.B. Du Bois, is examined in David Levering Lewis’ W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. Fifteen…

In the world of boxing, a “cut man” is someone who stops the blood flow so that the match can continue. For twenty years, F.X. Toole worked around the world…