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In this smart, funny, impassioned call to arms, a pop culture critic merges memoir and commentary to explore how our culture shapes ideas about who women are, what they are meant to be, and where t

What's really happening behind closed doors on America's college campuses' A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines.

On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach.

From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up while facing adversity in the Jim

In the United States, racial profiling affects thousands of Americans every day.

"Trafficking thrives in the shadows. And it can be easy to dismiss it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. But that is not the case.

The "poet laureate of the New York underground scene" chronicles three decades of electrifying artistic expression Once dominated by Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Gi

Edgar Award Finalist: The terrifying true story of savage murders, a terrorized midwestern town, and the serial killer who could have lived next door In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, a

The author of "Our Crowd" takes readers inside the gossip-tinged world of the 1970s Black elite, one obsessed with history, standing and appearance.

An ambitious firefighter hunts a notorious arsonist in the Edgar Award-winning true crime story the New York Times calls "stranger than fiction." From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Tim

The essays and reportage in 'How to Breathe Underwater' offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical change from the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian governmen

What would Obama's 2004 campaign have looked like if it unfolded in an African nation? What does it mean to be an African writer today?

In the twenty-first century, Canada has a reputation for being one of the most gay-friendly nations on earth, a pioneer in legalizing same-sex marriage, and home to enormously popular Pride parades

On casse des bébés, on casse des enfants.

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