Given the proper context by a very enlightening introductory essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (that is about half of this volume's content), the novel written by Hannah Crafts is a pretty remarkable piece of writing, not only for its insight into the life of a slave, but also for the rather clever...
A very interesting collection of interviews. With the exception of the last chapter, it tends to target very successful black people, which is I feel a different approach than many otherwise-similar surveys take. What I found most compelling was the repetition. At first, the fact that a lot of th...