To Kill A Mockingbird: The Timeless Classic Of Growing Up And The Human Dignity

by Harper Lee

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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the
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Secret Life Of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

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Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolin
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Invisible Man

by Harold Bloom

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After a brief introduction by editor Bloom, 12 collected critical essays consider various aspects of Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, Invisible Man, among them, a feminist perspective, Emersonian influences, Ellison's narrator compared to Twain's Huck Finn and Jim, Ellison's narrative strategies compared to those of Dostoyevsky, and the novel as a trickster tale of deceit, revenge, conquest, and failu
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Black Like Me

by John Howard Griffin

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This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
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Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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Cry, The Beloved Country

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Alan Paton's striking novel explores the existence of goodness in humankind against a backdrop of racial inequality, hate, and fear.
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Feathers

by Jacqueline Woodson

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Nobody knows what to make of the new boy in Frannie
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Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance

by Barack Obama

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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small tow
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Native Son

by Research And Education Association Staff and Bucc

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MAXnotes. . .- offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature- present material in an interesting, lively fashion- are written by literary experts who currently teach the subjects- are designed to stimulate independent thinking by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions- enhance understanding and enjoyment of the work- cover what one must know about each work- include an
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Autobiography Of Malcolm X

by Haley , Malcolm X, Alex Haley and others

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Passage To India

by E. M. Forster

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Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century and the basis for director David Lean's Academy Award-winning film, A Passage to India tells of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. In exquisite prose, Forster reveals the menace that lurks just beneath the surface of ordinary life, as a common misunderstanding erupts into a devastating affair.

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Mudbound

by Hillary Jordan

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When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening. Henry's love of rural life is not shared by Laura, who struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law. When it rains, the waters rise up and swallow the bridge t
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On Beauty

by Zadie Smith

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Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering Professor at Wellington College. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths, and faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the
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Maniac Magee

by Jerry Spinelli

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After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary as he accomplishes athletic feats and other extraordinary exploits that awe his contemporaries. Paperback.
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Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute To His White Mother

by Mcbride

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Coming February 2001: Miracle at St. Anna, a gripping, page-turning, highly original first novel about black servicemen in Italy in World War II by James McBride, the bestselling, acclaimed, and beloved author of the huge New York Times bestseller The Color of Water. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twe
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Race Matters

by Cornel West

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First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters has since become an American classic. Beacon Press is proud to present this hardcover edition with a new introduction by Cornel West. The issues that it addresses are as controversial and urgent as before, and West's insights remain fresh, exciting, and timely. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Ame
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Black Girl/White Girl: A Novel

by Joyce Carol Oates

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In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertive, fiercely individualistic, and one of the few black girls at their exclusive, "enlightened" college-and Genna, daughter of a prominent civil defense lawyer, felt duty-bound to protect her at all costs. But fifteen years later, while reconstructing Min
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Them: A Novel

by Nathan Mccall

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Barlowe Reed lives a modest life. He works as a printer, rents a ramshackle house in a predomantly black and relatively poor neighbourhood of Atlanta and shares his home with his twentysomething nephew who is struggling to get his life back on track. Barlowe's only dream right now is to save up enough money to buy his home and give them both some stability. Sean and Sandy Gilmore, a young white co
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Time Of Our Singing

by Richard Powers

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Jonah, JOseph and Ruth are the children of mixed-race parents determined to protect them from the grinding effects of race. Hothouse children, they are all musically talented, but they cannot be protected from the world for long. Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, but the world of opera can only accepts him as a 'brilliant Negro singer'; Joseph, our narrator, becomes a pianist and devotes his
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