Böcker av Michael Awkward

The conflict between the nation's ideals and the racial animus that persists even into the second term of America's first black president.

Presents a memoir of the author, a noted scholar of African American literature. This book offers his coming-of-age as a bookish black male in the projects of 1970s Philadelphia, his relationships with his family and peers, their struggles with poverty and addiction, and his move from underfunded urban schools to a prestigious private school.

Cultural and literary study of the construction of racial and artistic identity in soul cover albums of three popular artists--Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow.