“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.” WorldHumansLongSelfProblemCoursesCareersRightsEconomicCenturyRacismSolutionsDeterminationThirdsInternationalHuman RightsCommunismPropagandaSelf DeterminationSolidarityIntegrationTwentieth CenturyScholarshipThird World Author:David Levering Lewis
“Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography.” VoiceMoralHeardMovementExtraordinaryBiographiesIndispensableCapturedMandatesOrdinary LifeExtraordinary LifeBibliography Author:David Levering Lewis
“After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.” PeopleIdeasReadingJusticeConditionsColorTerribleGainsUnionsCriminalsRealizationFormerLatterSovietSoviet UnionScholarshipCrowJustice SystemStunningCriminal JusticeJim CrowCriminal Justice SystemGulags Author:David Levering Lewis
“Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in order to tell a vast story of a people's reinvention of itself and of a nation-the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west.” PeopleFirstsStoriesOrderNationsSocialBlackSunWestEastWarmthBiographiesMasterpieceMigrationIconicSocial ScienceReinventionNorth East Author:David Levering Lewis
“Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure.” MayHas BeensWrittenTalentFiguresMajorsFascinatingBiographiesHandsomeRenaissanceEricHarlemEnigmaticHarlem Renaissance Author:David Levering Lewis
