An early history of African Americans by an African American woman.
A Jamaican girl returns to her island home after her English education.
This edited volume brings together a variety of studies on the lives, works, and intellectual and practical contributions of these two stalwart political leaders.
McKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America.
Written in the tradition of such classics as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye, Banks' astonishing new novel tells the story of a homeless youth living on the edge of society--a lost boy who maps the cruel world that ...
Inspired by, but independent of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the story of the first Mrs. Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Brontė's Jane Eyre.
Setting out to correct the inaccuracies of most previously written accounts of slavery, teacher and social activist Octavia Albert presents the personal narratives of former slaves, along with her own incisive commentary.
A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.
"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home ...