race identity

Recounts the life and work of controversial African-American leader Marcus Garvey, and features archivalfootage and interviews with surviving members of Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association.

Explores the increasingly complex role race plays on the political and social landscape of the United States.

Presents interviews with fifty African-American women, all of whom are retired from professional careers, in which they discuss key aspects of their lives, focusing on their achievements and successes in the face of racial and gender prejudice.

Collection of thirty-seven short pieces and six essays by the author about what it means to be African-American and female at the end of the twentieth century.

A beautiful African-American woman of privilege finds herself attracted to the kind of man she has dreaded since childhood: uneducated, violent, and contemptuous of her.

Follows a young man from the African-American upper-middle class from his childhood in Indianapolis to his experiences in New York and Paris.

The author's memoir of growing up white in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood of housing projects on New York's Lower East Side during the 1970s and '80s.

The author discusses his experiences as the son of a Mexican-American mother and an Anglo father, recalling aspects of his childhood with his poverty-stricken mother, and his adolescence with his upper-middle class father; and offers his analysis of the intersection of race and class in the U.S.