Posts Tagged ‘Books’
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Published This Date in 1852
Harriet Beecher’s groundbreaking book heralded changing times and attitudes toward Black Americans before the Civil War.
Read MoreDear White America: New book examines anxieties of America’s dwindling majority.
Anti-racist activist and author Tim Wise is back with another witty and no-holds-barred take on race and America’s changing demographics. White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation.
Read MoreSome Say Re-election Fear Is Driving Gun Sales In Texas, Elsewhere
“I’m constantly getting questions from people in the gun community about this [issue],” said Alan Korwin, author of nine gun law books, including Gun Laws of America. “People are concerned that if Obama wins, as a lame duck, he will go after firearms in a way we have never seen before. We saw a fire…
Read MoreDrug Policy as Race Policy: Best Seller “The New Jim Crow”
Author Michelle Alexander’s groundbreaking book about the mass incarceration of Black Americans has invited criticism.
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