“Why was AIDS allowed to spread unchecked during the early 1980s while our most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat? In this…
Power explores a particularly American phenomenon in which journalists, advocates and US policymakers draw comparisons between contemporary…
“‘They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.’ So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a…
“In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored…
“Elizabeth Martinez’s unique Chicana voice arises from over 30 years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation…
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“Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable…
“A multi-generational saga of the Sioux Indians, mixing magic and reality. Set in the Dakotas, it begins in the 1860s with the tragic…
“Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all…
“Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 biomythography by American poet Audre Lorde. It started a new genre that the author calls…
“Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother’s happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the…