America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfoldin...

It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. 'Contexts' provides e...

Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary pe...

Nothing is 'pure' in America, and indeed, the rich ethnic mix that constitutes our society accoun...

This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays charts the cultural construction of 'et...

Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined a...

Werner Sollors’ African American Writing takes a fresh look at what used to be called “Negro lite...

Aside from the occasional controversy over 'Official English' campaigns, language remains the bli...

Long out of print in America, Alexandre Dumas's most daring narrative is now available in this ma...

Werner Sollors’ African American Writing takes a fresh look at what used to be called “Negro lite...

The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the U...

Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of “race melodrama” through the le...

An 1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American imm...

Bereits 1946 nahm der in Lettland geboren amerikanische Psychologe David Pablo Boder in Europa mi...

In Germany the end of World War II calls forth images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and...

Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of “race melodrama” through the le...

A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A...

Why can a 'white' woman give birth to a 'black' baby, while a 'black' woman can never give birth ...

Opening with five intriguing urban short stories by Zora Neale Hurston that are reprinted here fo...

Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt's own fam...

What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Opening with a survey of American literature ...

The first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors' ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity.

Was fasziniert uns an Kunstwerken, die Texte in ihre Bildwelt einbeziehen oder menschliche Figure...