Asian and African American gangs are vying for control of Oakland's waterfront. But when the first casualty is the Asian warlord's son, the gang war becomes more dangerous than either side ever imagined. Released: 2000 Directed by: Andrzej Bartkowiak Also ranks #5 on Every DMX Movie,...
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A searing novel about a young African immigrant woman's dream of freedom in modern-day Rome and the bittersweet legacies of her past. from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden A Very Scandinavian Christmas A festive continuation of the very popular Very Christmas story collection from the very regio...
Four Hundred Souls is about African American history, from 1619—when the White Lion, the first African slave ship, arrived in Virginia—to the present, but it's also a really interesting book for anyone fed up with the standard historical narratives we learn in school. The book is a serie...
Although each story is set during slavery time in its respective American culture(s), these novels relocate issues of color prejudice and identity contemporaneous to their composition. In doing so they establish the continuity of conceptualizing and overcoming color prejudice. An aesthetic based on ...
Fans of historical romance novels – Georgian romance in particular – are in for a treat following the announcement that accomplished American author Kathleen Buckley’s latest Georgian romance novel will be released in March. TitledA Murder of Convenience, it will be published on March 24, but ...
The writer/director bases his film on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett. Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is a highly intelligent African-American upper-class writer and professor living in Los Angeles. He is a frustrated novelist-professor who doesn’t make much money or ...
Halperin’s novel explores an African American teen’s adventure during a grueling 40-day, 1,900-mile bicycle trek with the Black Infantry Bicycle Corps in late-19th-century America. Boy at the Crossroads: From Teenage Runaway to Class President ...
In her profile of the star for The New Yorker, titled “American Pro Tem,” Virgilia Peterson Ross refused to buy into the mysterious aura that was partly manufactured by Garbo’s handlers at MGM. The other part, however, was genuine Garbo, who detested parties, serious talk, and other ...
By focusing on personal experience and ignoring the models provided by novels he is able to take a fresh look at African Americans (the graceful manners of the waiter in Pittsburg) and Native Americans. Unlike other memorialists of Continental crossings, he does not describe fauna, rivers and ...