Multiculturalism | Multiculturalism
Aug.20.2011
The edited collection titled Children of the Changing South: Accounts of Growing Up During and After Integration, includes 18 memoirs about growing up in the South from the late 1950s through the early 1990s, and is being published by McFarland & Co. The book is listed in the...
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Apr.19.2009
Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map.
Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long journeys collide with...
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Apr.19.2009
Phillips begins this distinctive collection of essays by establishing his belief that there is a "new world order" of cultural plurality, one which is being promoted by the increasingly central role of the migrant and the refugee in the modern world.
A New World Order ranges widely across...
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Apr.01.2009
"The Harlem Renaissance Way Down South" had its official beginnings as a lecture called The Harlem Renaissance in Savannah delivered by author-poet Aberjhani on August 28, 2004, at the Carnegie Branch Library in Savannah, Georgia, to commemorate the re-opening of the library. The branch...
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Mar.12.2009
In his many novels, poetry, histories, editorials, plays, and letters, W. E. B. Du Bois poured so much of his blindingly incandescent soul into his writings that no single volume could ever contain all of his words or works. In fact, had not the historian David Levering Lewis taken it upon himself...
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Sep.12.2008
Time: The second decade of the twenty-first century. As the immigration crisis reaches the boiling point, once-peaceful Latino protests explode into rioting. Cities across the nation are in flames. Anglo vigilantes bent on revenge launch drive-by shootings in the barrios, wantonly killing young and...
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Jul.19.2008
This is a collection of original essays by well-known women writers in every genre, about how to get past obstacles in your writing. It is geared especially to women writers, but men seeking inspiration for the creative process will also benefit. Authors include Denise Levertov,...
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Apr.18.2008
Lily Kwok is the first Chinese woman to open a Chinese restaurant in Great Britain. Her granddaughter, Helen Tse is the third generation of women restaurateurs and the book Sweet Mandarin is named after her award winning restaurant. This family has been rocked by both international, social and...
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