Lure And Loathing: Essays On Race, Identity, And the Ambivalence of Assimilation

By Gerald Early

Daughters

By Gerald Lyn Early

For the many readers familiar with Gerald Early's writing, Daughters will come as no surprise; it is a book he seemed destined to write. Those readers unfamiliar with his writing are in for one of...

The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader

By Sammy Davis Jr.

One Nation Under A Groove

By Gerald Lyn Early

Best African American Essays: 2009

By

This exciting collection introduces the first-ever annual anthology of writing by African Americans. Here are remarkable essays on a variety of subjects informed by—but not necessarily about&...

Best African American essays 2009

By Gerald Lyn Early, Debra J. Dickerson

Selected from a diverse array of respected publications such as the New Yorker, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, and National Geographic, the essays gathered here are about making history, liv...

Lure and Loathing

By Gerald Early

A level playing field

By Gerald Lyn Early

As Americans, we believe there ought to be a level playing field for everyone. Even if we don't expect to finish first, we do expect a fair start. Only in sports have African Americans actually fou...

The Muhammad Ali Reader

By Gerald Early

Lure and Loathing

By Various

""The history of the American Negro is the history of strife....The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world. It is a peculiar sensation...