Christopher J. Lebron contends that it is the duty of political thought to address the moral problems that attend racial inequality and to make those problems salient to a democratic polity. Thus, in The Color of Our Shame, he asks two major questions. First, given the success of the Civil Rights...
A Norton Critical Edition
Co-Editor: Jennifer Rae Greeson
This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern how Chesnutt experimented with plots and characters and with the idea of the conjure story over time. With one exception, the text...
An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the public life of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America. Elijah Anderson, called “one of our best urban ethnographers” by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan canopy”: the...
“If you wanted a poem,” wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, “you only had to look out of a
window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or
singing.” From the life of Chicago’s South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African...
In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 50. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of her married life that was, grappling with the subsequent void, and feeling a re-energized devotion...
“Readers owe themselves the many pleasures to be found in this book; Elizabeth Alexander creates intellectual magic in poem after poem.” —The New York Times Book Review
Graywolf Press | January 2004 | ISBN: 1-55597-392-2 | Pbk., 56 pages
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