This full-length biography explores the multifaceted-and altogether fascinating-life, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first…

An affordable, compact primer on the artist who drastically shifted the course of late 20th-century art

This reader provides a concise introduction to the widely popular yet oft-misunderstood artist Jean-Michel…

The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only…

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit…

The Crowley-Gates incident was a clash of absolutes, underscoring the tension between black and white, police and civilians, and the privileged and less privileged in modern America. Charles Ogletree uses…

This book tells the story of how Uncle Tom, the Christ-like protagonist of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, became a racial epithet and why Americans have been invoking this controversial figure for…

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots. As Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates…

Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee interweaves the life of the first academically trained African American architect with his lifes workthe campus of Booker T. Washingtons Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute…