Category: Books

  • Health disparities exist between races in America. These inequalities are cataloged in numerous studies, reports, conferences, articles, seminars, and keynote speeches. Various studies include reports on income, health insurance, cultural differences between patients and their physicians, language barriers, and biological “racial” differences in the discourse of health disparities.

  • This wildly imaginative and culturally resonant tale by Daniel Picouly audaciously places black and mixed-race characters–including King Mac, creator of the first hamburger, who hands out figures of Voltaire and Rousseau with his happy meals, and the megalomaniac Black Delorme, creator of a slavery theme park–at the forefront of its Revolution-era story.

  • The unique and beautifully written story of one multiracial woman’s journey of acceptance and identity that tackles the fraught topic of race in America.

  • Madame E. Azalia Hackley was an African American classical singer, social worker, writer, philanthropist, and activist who championed the use of African-American spirituals among the African-American people as a tool for social change. Her efforts laid the groundwork for the use of spirituals as freedom songs during the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Born a Slave: Rediscovering Arthur Jackson’s African American Heritage The Orderly Pack Rat 2015-04-25 328 pages 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0970430816 David W. Jackson By the close of the Civil War in 1865 all American slaves became free citizens. Suddenly a new life dawned for them and their descendants. Arthur Jackson,…

  • This book addresses the contemporary complexities of race, racial identity, and the persistence of racism.

  • An anthropomorphic study of the black population in the United States, based on a study conducted in 1920.

  • A brother chosen. A brother left behind. And a family where you’d least expect to find one.

  • Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Bucknell University Press 2015 252 pages ISBN 9781611486209 Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Tennessee This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that…

  • A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism Duke University Press 2001 232 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2210-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2239-9 Roberto Schwarz Translated by: John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work…