Through compelling prose, Torres masterfully weaves her own story as a first-generation Mexican American with interviews with activists and other Mexican-American women to document the present fight for social justice and the struggles of living between two worlds.

    This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question - Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the significance of gender, class and nation to racial identity.

    She moved to Brooklyn in 1995 to pursue her love for poetry, and soon became a renowned poet and performer in the Nyc arts community. moore is the author of several plays, and her work appears in numerous anthologies including Listen Up!, Step into A World, Role Call, and Bum Rush the Crowd. She has appeared on Hbo's Def Poetry Jam, Hughes Dream Harlem (Bet), I'll Make Me a World (Pbs) and is well know for her historical appearance on the Apollo Stage. She is writing her first screenplay, The Betty Davis Story and is the start of the short film His/Herstory. She has recorded her poetry with with platinum recording artist Nas and jazz musician Antonio Hart. This is her sophomore release through Black Moore Press. She currently lives in Atlanta.

    That deep spiritual vision is richly reflected inFaith of Our Fathers. For one who has been unjustly imprisoned for so many years to retain faith is remarkable enough in itself. Butto produce such a work of stunning insight and thoughtful research, as Mumia has done, is truly inspiring."--Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science and History, Director, Institute for Research in African-American Studies"Mumia Abu-Jamal's Faith of Our Fathers captures black religion's ambiguity and complexity. Well-researched and lucidly written, his insights rest onsound scholarly judgment...this book is a creative engagement by onewho knows existentially what it means tosearch for freedom in chains."--Fromthe Preface by James H. Cone, Briggs Distinguished Professor, Union TheologicalSeminary"From his death row cell in Pennsylvania, Mumia Abu-Jamal bursts free here, showing the same stamina and wisdomof the ancestors of spirit he so movingly portraysin this new book. He and hisbook witness to spirit that matters spirit surviving slavery and prison, spirit celebrating love and life, spirit still fightingfor justice."--Mark L. Taylor, Professor of Theology & Culture, PrincetonTheological SeminaryMumia Abu-Jamal writes quite literally from"the Valley ofthe Shadow of Death" and has wonawards and a vast readership for his gripping essays from prison. As he fights for his own freedom, Abu-Jamal writes passionately about the freedom struggles of millions throughout history. He is the authorof the best-selling Live from Death Row, Death Blossoms, and AllThings Censored.ISBN: 1-59221-019-8 (paper) $19.95Theology/AFRICAN AMERICAN4 >

    Recognizing that the rubric "Asian American" elides crucial differences, Kandice Chuh argues for reframing Asian American studies as a study defined not by its subjects and objects, but by its critique. Toward that end, she urges the foregrounding of the constructedness of "Asian American" formations and shows how this understanding of the field provides the basis for continuing to use the term "Asian American" in light of—and in spite of—contemporary critiques about its limitations.Drawing on the insights of poststructuralist theory, postcolonial studies, and investigations of transnationalism, Imagine Otherwise conceives of Asian American literature and U.S. legal discourse as theoretical texts to be examined for the normative claims about race, gender, and sexuality that they put forth. Reading government and legal documents, novels including Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart, John Okada's No-No Boy, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls, and Lois Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging, and the short stories "Immigration Blues" by Bienvenido Santos and "High-Heeled Shoes" by Hisaye Yamamoto, Chuh works through Filipino American and Korean American identity formation and Japanese American internment during World War II as she negotiates the complex and sometimes tense differences that constitute 'Asian America' and Asian American studies.

    In their absence, commonly held perceptions of black women as teenage mothers, welfare recipients, mammies, or exotic sexual playthings remain unchanged. For fear that telling their stories will fulfill society's implicit expectations about their sexuality, most black women have retreated into silence. Tricia Rose seeks to break this silence and jump-start a dialogue by presenting, for the first time, the sexual testimonies of black women who span a broad range of ages, levels of education, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Both brilliantly conceived and sensitively executed, Longing to Tell is required reading for anyone interested in issues of race and gender.