The author of "Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone" presents a provocative, timely examination of racial identity. Itabari Njeri lays out with precision and power how lim

The Last Plantation By: Betty Lane Maddox Betty Lane Maddox was born to Melvin and Robert Duncan Walls in Hollandale, Mississippi. Both of her parents are now d

"In the Last Plantation, James Jones uses the plantation metaphor to investigate how Congress operates as a racialized governing institution, a state body organ

Provides information about what daily life was like on a southern plantation, including how slaves worked and dressed and what they ate.

Unfolding within a framework of two tumultuous weeks, this novel tells of the struggle for autonomy of both a young woman and a repressed country. Interweaving