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"Jazz, it is widely accepted, is the signal original American contribution to world culture. Angela Davis shows us how the roots of that form in the blues must be viewed not only as a musical tradition but as a life-sustaining vehicle for an...

The ancient traditions and contemporary experiences of Native Americans are reflected in a collection of stories which includes contributions by established authors as well as new writers.

With his third novel, Craig Lesley comes into his own as an important American writer. Combining the familial loyalties and betrayals of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It with the dead-on perfect ear for western dialect and local ritual of...

Clark Woods struggles to raise his disabled and disturbed Native American foster son, Wade, while also trying to preserve his new marriage and family; but his determination not to abandon Wade is shaken by the boy's constant tendency to find...

The author recounts his paternal relationships, as well as his own experiences of parenthood, in a memoir that describes his father's abandonment, the abuse of his stepfather, and his fostering of a troubled Native American boy.