Novelist and playwright, Thulani Davis takes a journey through her ancestral history, and finds Scottish tartan, unlikely lovers and Confederate soldiers in her past. Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist, Thulani Davis decided to go looking for the "white folk" in her ancestry - a ...
The frustration and tragedy of segregation, the exhilaration and rising tension of the protest and the fears of Willie Tarrant are set against a passionate background of jazzomania, the one escape available to the beleaguered inhabitants of the black community of a Virginia ghetto.
When her best friend, a controversial performance artist, dies in a fall from an eighth-floor window, a young black woman tries to put together the pieces of her friend's chaotic life, and to discover whether her death was a suicide or a murder.
A collection of photographs of Malcolm X, beginning with his childhood and focusing on the years 1959 to 1965, when he was in the public eye. Throughout his life, Malcolm X underwent many transformations: from junior high school class president to jazz-club shoeshine boy to railway worker to drug dealer. The photographs are from many of the great ...
This study examines the early film career of Oscar Micheaux, a novelist turned film maker who went on to become the most prolific African-American director ever, directing nearly 40 feature films. Appearing on the so-called "race-movie circuit," Micheaux's films were seen by almost exclusively black audiences. Bowser and Spencer focus on the 20 or ...
Now back in print, this collection of Thulani Davis's poetry is a remarkable, galvanic experience reminiscent of the visionary beauty and fiery resolution of Sonia Sanchez or Ntozake Shange. These are poems of visceral impact, whether they speak of the shattering of a love, the violence of history or modern life, or the "whole body of God, ...
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