Category: Books

  • Band of Angels, A Novel Louisiana State University Press August 1994 (originally published in 1955) 375 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches no illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780807119464 Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this…

  • Biracial Identity Development in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia A chapter in Body Horror and Shapeshifting: A Multidisciplinary Exploration Brill 2014-01-04 pages: 145–152 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-84888-306-2 DOI: 10.1163/9781848883062_016 Jin-Yu Lin Biracial individuals frequently go through a search for identity, a struggle to choose an identity and finally to accept their inherent multiplicity. They identify with more than…

  • “Becoming Free, Becoming Black” tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders’ efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery.

  • Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.

  • Accepted socially and legally since slavery, this “rule,” as well as its strict enforcement, created a dynamic leadership pool of Light, Bright and Damn Near White revolutionaries, embraced by the Black community as some of its most vocal and active leaders.

  • Starling Days Hodder & Stoughton 2019-07-11 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781473638365 Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she’s not about to jump but they don’t believe her. Her husband, Oscar is called to pick her…

  • Canada’s history is bicultural, Indigenous, and multilingual, and these characteristics have given risen to a number of strategies used by our writers to code racially mixed characters. This book examines contemporary Canadian literature and drama in order to tease out some of those strategies and the social and cultural factors that inform them.

  • This “watershed collection” (Wall Street Journal) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories.

  • A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.

  • Winner of the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, “The Inheritance of Haunting,” by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, is a collection of poems contending with historical memory and its losses and gains carried within the body, wrought through colonization and its generations of violence, war, and survival.