John Edgar Wideman
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of -- "JB & FD""Maps and Ledgers""Williamsburg Bridge" "My Dead" Navigating an extraordinary range of subject and tone, Wideman challenges the boundaries of traditional forms, and delivers unforgettable, immersive narratives that touch the very core of what it means to be alive. An extended meditation on family, history, and loss, American Histories weaves together historical fact,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis's execution, he couldn't escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first time. Author of the award-winning Brothers and Keepers,...
4) Hoop roots
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
The author recalls his experiences playing basketball with whites and African Americans in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, describing how African Americans slowly but surely changed the nature of the sport.
6) Hoop dreams
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Follows the lives of two high-school basketball players from inner city Chicago over a five-year span as they aspire to become professional basketball players.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatship girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories, for Díaz, have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
Pub. Date
[2000]
Appears on list
Description
"Ranging from late nineteenth-century writers such as Charles Chesnutt to contemporary authors such as Walter Mosley, the works in The African American West demonstrate how the West, as seen through the eyes of African Americans, has evolved over the last century. Glasrud, a historian, and Champion, a literary scholar, combine their varying areas of expertise in The African American West, and their introductions to each part of the book provide both...