The readable companion, in the oral-history tradition of Studs Terkel, to the PBS documentary series, peeking behind the veil "that still, far too often, separa

Examines four different elements of the African American experience as well as the legacy of the Civil Rights movement, in a collection of essays based on inter

Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades

The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America is one of an ambitious series of volumes aimed at converting the vast statistical yield of the 1980 census int

Examines the history of black-owned barber shops in the United States, from pre-Civil War Era through today.