Equiano's autobiography, first published in 1789, is the most quoted, reprinted and widely-published writing by an African before the twentieth century. His powerful words spoke for the fate of millions of Africans in the era of the transatlantic slave trade.<P>Equiano was, by turns, African child, American slave, field hand, domestic servant, sailor (an explorer to the Arctic), free man and political activist in Britain, best-selling ...

One of the greatest football players of the twentieth century offers a rare combination of down home wisdom, gridiron determination, and modern motivation to help anyone succeed in the game of life. The best defensive end in the National Football League (NFL), Deacon Jones knew that extraordinary mental toughness was crucial to keep him at the peak of his game. This collection of sayings represents the mental and spiritual essence of a ...

Jackie is known throughout the world as the best female athlete ever - the winner of six Olympic medals, three of them gold; the current world-record holder in the heptathlon (the women's version of the male decathlon); the one-time world-record holder in the long jump; and an All-America basketball player. She grew up in East St. Louis in a house "little more than wallpaper and sticks". Her parents were poor teenagers when they married. She ...

Adopting an Iberian-American heritage, she reinvented herself as Felipa Monterro, an ultra-right conservative who wrote and lectured for the John Birch Society. Her experiment failed, as had her parents' dream of smashing America's racial barriers. But at the age of thirty five, Philippa finally began to embark on a racial catharsis: She was just beginning to find herself when on May 9, 1967, while on an unauthorized mission of mercy, her life ...

Cultural Writing. Biography. American Indian Studies. Mose Yellow-Horse (1898-1964), a Skidi Pawnee, played professional baseball for nearly a decade. Using a structural pattern based on an old-time pawnee Indian storytelling session, many voices and perspectives collaborate to form a multi-facted recreation of Mose Yellow-Horse's life. Poetry, oral histories (from tribal elders), critical essays, letters, cartoons, photographs, and newspaper ...

Wrenching, shocking, but ultimately hopeful, this novel will bring readers a story of growth in the worst of circumstances, a young girl's attempt to make sense of her life, and a powerful emotional experience wrought in searing, unadulterated prose.
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Carroll contends that race is brought to the consciousness of African Americans every day through interaction with employers, service providers, landlords, the police, and the media, and she examines the stress experienced by blacks merely as a result of being African American. ...

This collection of essays emerged from a symposium held at Mercer University which examined the ways in which W. E. B. DuBois's theories of race have shaped racial discussion and public policy in the twentieth-century. The essays also examine the application of Du Bois's theories to the new millennium, as well as his contributions to the study of the humanities.
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An analysis of the recent switch from the name "Black" to "African American" symbolizes a reconceptualization of Americans of African descent away from race to culture. This book examines the emergence of a new representation whose rapid spread has been fuelled by widely shared projections of a different future capable of overcoming the legacy of racism. ...

From the author of "The Covenant with Black America" comes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain, and atonement. Celebrated talk-show host Smiley describes growing up in an all-white rural community in Indiana and the impact it had on his life.
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