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This fourth edition of Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates many recent research studies and reports on United States racial issues that update and enhance the last edition's chapters. It expands the discussion and data on social science concepts such as intersectionality and gendered racism, as well as the concepts of the white racial...

Hypocrisy and prejudice twist events in such a way as to implicate two children, one from a prominent white family and the other an Afro-American, in a murder. An interracial friendship, sexual abuse, & family secrets are themes in this novel about a white boy & a black girl growing up in the eastern shore of Virginia. A Season of Change Along the Virginia shoreline where their families have lived for generations, Buck and Tunes Smith defy tradition....

Director George Nierenberg's brilliant and blissful follow-up to No Maps on my Taps features stylistic performances and recollections by three of America’s leading male tap dancers: Steve Condos, Jimmy Slyde and Chuck Green. Condos thinks himself an instrumentalist who focuses on the ankles and feet, while Slyde discusses “visual dancers” and Green advises the use of port de bras. With an introduction by Gregory Hines, ABOUT TAP introduces viewers...

The memoir of a bookish black youth in mid-twentieth century Cleveland When Phillip M. Richards graduated from Yale in 1972, he had fulfilled his parents' dreams. Like many other black Clevelanders of their generation, they had come up from the South in the late forties and moved from neighborhood to neighborhood in search of better schools. As they followed bourgeois African Americans' circular migration from Mt. Pleasant to Lee Harvard to South...

Racial tensions are reignited as a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs fights for the removal of a wall of trees that many believe were originally planted as a totem of segregation.

Robert wishes Stevie, a house guest, would go away but when he does Robert realizes how much fun they had together.

"Theologian and jazz pianist William Edgar places jazz within the context of the African American experience and explores the work of musicians like Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald, arguing that jazz, which moves from deep lament to inextinguishable joy, deeply resonates with the hope that is ultimately found in the good news of Jesus Christ"-- Provided by publisher.

An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper-middle-class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organization, to the life of an expatriate in Paris. Through it all, his imagination is increasingly dominated by his elderly relations and the lessons of their experiences in the "Old Country" of the South.

Jacqueline Woodson's evocative story about the power of sharing memories, with glorious illustrations by Tonya Engel The earth changes, Sarah's grandpa always said as they worked together in his garden. Like us, some part of it never dies. Everything and everyone goes on and on. Now that Grandpa's gone, though, it's hard for Sarah to imagine "on and on" without him. But when loved ones gather to share stories of Grandpa, she begins to understand how...

A young boy enjoys spending a day at the beach with his family.