Features
Monday, January 24 2011
The Best Non-Fiction of 2010
PopMatters' writers (a margin-friendly, iconoclastic bunch, for the most part) cast their nets far beyond the world of culture-production to capture some of the best non-fiction books published in 2010.
Reviews
Tuesday, October 5 2010
'The Warmth of Other Suns': A Time When the Bible Itself Was Segregated
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson's powerful narrative is vital to understanding the plight of African Americans, vital to understanding the United States, and should not be ignored.
News
Friday, November 4 2011
Isabel Wilkerson dramatizes story of African-Americans who fled the South
CHICAGO — Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, fled Mississippi in fear for her life after a relative was falsely accused of turkey stealing,…
Thursday, February 10 2011
Author studies black migration to the North
When Miles Davis' parents left Arkansas, they were among the early African-American migrants to leave the South for better opportunities in the North. If they…
