Author: Albert Memmi
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: salt, pillar
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1992-02-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0807083275
ISBN-13: 9780807083277

A semi-autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French colonized Tunisia. "His father an Italian Jew, his mother a Berber, Benillouche struggles on the tattered fringe of the Tunisian ghetto for the very air he breathes. . . . A mature, thoughtful book." —The New York Times

Author: Cornel West
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: matters, race
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2001-05-25
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0807009725
ISBN-13: 9780807009727

First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters has since become an American classic. Beacon Press is proud to present this hardcover edition with a new introduction by Cornel West. The issues that it addresses are as controversial and urgent as before, and West’s insights remain fresh, exciting, and timely. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americans—one that will help us build a genuine multiracial democracy.

Author: Charles C. Calhoun
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: life, rediscovered, longfellow
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2005-06-15
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0807070394
ISBN-13: 9780807070390

Charles C. Calhoun’s Longfellow gives life, at last, to the most popular American poet who ever lived, a nineteenth-century cultural institution of extraordinary influence and the “one poet average, nonbookish Americans still know by heart” (Dana Gioia). Longfellow emerges as one of America’s first powerful cultural makers: a poet and teacher who helped define Victorian culture; a major conduit for European culture coming into America; a catalyst for the Colonial Revival movement in architecture and interior design; and a critic of both Puritanism and the American obsession with materia

Author: Gayl Jones
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: corregidora
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1987-02-15
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0807063150
ISBN-13: 9780807063156

Here is Gayl Jones’s classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother."Corregidora is the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and women."—James Baldwin

Author: David Plante
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: grief, memoir, lover
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-09-02
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0807072982
ISBN-13: 9780807072981

Our first night together, we could have been the inspiration of a poem by Cavafy. But you would not make love. You wanted to lie with me and talk. I, who only really knew promiscuity, didn’t understand, but you said you must first know a person before making love. You believed lovemaking was a long and intimate conversation. That conversation with you was filled with delicacy of your sensuality, for sensuality and sensitivity were in you one, eros and agape.  David Plante first met Nikos Stangos in London in 1965. He was a young American—raw, an aspiring writer, in love with a fantasy of

Author: Gayl Jones
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: bluestreak, healing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0807063258
ISBN-13: 9780807063255

Harlan Jane Eagleton transforms herself from a minor rock star’s manager to a traveling faith healer in this lyrical and often humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love."A major literary event . . . surprising, romantic, and wholly satisfying."—Veronica Chambers, Newsweek

Author: Barbara Katz Rothman
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: adoption, race, untangling, family, weaving
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2005-05-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0807028282
ISBN-13: 9780807028285

Barbara Katz Rothman, a noted sociologist who has explored motherhood in four previous books and has more recently explored the social implications of the human genome project, now turns her eye toward race and family. Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, and all—race, family, and adoption—within the context of the changing meanings of motherhood.Drawing on her own experience as the white mother of a black child, on historical research