Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely focused on questions of identity and difference—What does it mean to have a racial identity? What constitutes racial diffe
This book provides a historical context for the recent resurgence of racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the narrative writings of African-Americans in the nineteent
A cultural history exploring how candy became food in America shares reassuring facts about its actual nutritional risks while revealing the historical influences that have inaccurately rendered candy
