
Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
Book
Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American...
Art social issues politics

Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge
Book
In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema...

Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora
Book
One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine...

Escape to the Maroons
Book
In 1792, an escaped slave, raised and living as white, is discovered and forced to flee into the...
HIstorical Fiction African American History

Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer
Book
Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the...

The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
Celeste Mari Bernier, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman and Matthew Pethers
Book
This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field - the history of letters and...
Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
Book
In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American...

The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America
Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Paul Freston and Stephen C. Dove
Book
The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America covers religious history in Latin America from...

American Crime Story Season 1: The People v. O.J. Simpson
TV Season Watch
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story is a limited series that takes you inside the O.J....

The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story
Book
In The Last Balladeer, author Gregg Akkerman skillfully reveals the life-long achievements and...