Gathers essays on cultural heritage by James Baldwin, Wendell Berry, Joan Didion, W.E.B. DuBois, Mary Gordon, Maxine Hong Kingston, Adrienne Rich, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

Presents stories written by authors of diverse cultural backgrounds, including Alice Walker, Oscar Hijuelos, Sherman Alexie, Michelle Cliff, Mei Mei Evans, LeRoi Jones, and Sui Sin Far.

Product Description: Darktown Strutters is the story of Jim Crow, a remarkable dancer, born in slavery, who performs in minstrel shows, South and North, during the furious times of pre- and post- Civil War America. Touching, harrowing, and inspiring, Darktown Strutters is a unique novel of courage and pride from the author of Tragic Magic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book takes a simple yet novel approach to the "Narrative of the Life of a Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)". The authors of the essays collected here believe that students need to experience the Narrative as an aesthetic achievement as well as a socio-historical document...read more

Product Description: Book by Brown, Wesley

Product Description: Darktown Strutters is the story of Jim Crow, a remarkable dancer, born in slavery, who performs in minstrel shows, South and North, during the furious times of pre- and post- Civil War America. Touching, harrowing, and inspiring,Darktown Strutters is a unique novel of courage and pride from the author of Tragic Magic...read more

Product Description: 364 PAGES WITH INDEX