Race
Freak Shows and the Modern... by Thomas Fahy
Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination examines the artistic use of freakishness between 1900 and 1950, mapping its rather...
Families on the Fault Line by Lillian B Rubin
In what is destined to become one of the most important books published this year, Lillian Rubin takes us inside...
The World Is A Text by Dean Rader
Innovative reader/textbook on visual and popular culture
Rejoice Burning - New South... by James Whyle
Rejoice Burning is based on real lives, people I knew and know, but the middle owes a lot to Uys...
Serpent Box: A Novel by Vincent Louis Carrella
Nestled in the deep mountains of Appalachia is Leatherwood, Tennessee, home to the Flint family—Pentecostal Holiness preachers who spread the...
Finn by Jon Clinch
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Can't Stop Won't Stop ::... by Jeff Chang
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining...
A Certain Justice by John Lescroart
When the angry white mob poured out of the bar on San Francisco's Geary Street and surrounded an innocent black...
Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed proves he's a formidable historical novelist in this sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye-view of the Civil War.
Another Day at the Front by Ishmael Reed
Despite the rabble-rousing subtitle, remarkable novelist and critic Reed offers far more than the erudite, colloquial confrontationalism with which he...