Biography & Autobiography : Cultural Heritage

It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe ma......

Born in Beijing, China in 1955, Yuci Tan and her "American-spy" father lived through very difficult times together during the Cultural Revolution, which bega......

A phenom, a hero, a legend.It was June 12, 1952 and only a local sportswriter showed up at the Eau Claire airport to greet a newly signed eighteen-year-old s......

Born into a life of constant financial, physical, and moral threat, Meti Birabiro takes refuge in literature and the fantastic. Blue Daughter of the Red Sea ......

What if you met your future soul mate, but were too busy living in the here and now to realize you'd found "the one?"That's what happened when Courtney B. Vance...

Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship.......

In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, n......

Foreword by Earvin "Magic" Johnson"Absolutely one of the best players ever to play the game." --Bill Walton A three-time Olympic gold medalist, three-t......

The central figure of this short story is a biker named Montana LeFandra (not his real name). I was about to say "hero" of this story, but, on thinking about...

The decisions that change your life are often the most impulsive ones. Author: Ahmed,, Qanta Publisher: Sourcebooks Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: In ......

Sam Cooke's nephew pays homage to the Soul music legend with an introspective look into his life, music, and death - complete with candid family interviews a......

This book honors the Tuskegee Airmen, known as the "Red Tails" who never lost escorted bombers. Read the personal account of a fighter pilot who overcame seg......

Following the author through Toronto in the 1940s and 1950s, this engrossing memoir depicts the evolution from a middle class childhood into an unconventiona......

In this moving autobiography, Daniel Gawthrop writes about the politics and pleasures of being a self-identified ""rice queen"": a gay man who is attracted t......

The War Before traces Bukhari's lifelong commitment as an advocate for the rights of the oppressed. Following her journey from middle-class student to Black ......

Daisy Bates (1914-1999) is renowned as the mentor of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas......

Born into slavery in 1849, My Life in the South is Jacob Stroyer?s engrossing first hand look at his life as a slave. After the Civil War, Stroyer moved...

The long and storied career of Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. one of the nation's finest speakers, has carried him from work on the civil rights front lines in the South...

In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In Hapa Girl ("hapa" is Hawaiian for "m......

Many years ago, the few readers of radical Abolitionist papers must often have seen the singular name of Sojourner Truth, announced as a frequent speaker at ......