Tuesday, February 15 2011
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
While Disintegration contains its share of frank, bracing, straight talk that dispels long-held notions about black Americans, one of Eugene Robinson’s underlying assumptions — that America persists in seeing black people as an experiential monolith — is not the defining absolute it used to be.
Monday, May 17 2010
He’s In Search of the Blues, and Lord Does Bill Minutaglio Find Them
This is an emotive, compelling, and enlightening collection of essays thanks as much to Bill Minutaglio's writing as the inherent human interest in the topics he chooses.
Sunday, January 1 1995
I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dyson illuminates the complexities of King’s identity and challenges the boundaries in which King and his legacy have been forced to inhabit because of desires on the part of the King family, traditional Civil Rights leaders, and the mass media to neuter (pun, absolutely intended) his persona and his politics.
