"A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, while simultaneously arguing that LGBT people not only shaped but were pivotal in creating our country. Using numerous primary docu…
Portrait of American black artist, writer and nationalist Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965). Though she married a man, she identified herself as lesbian. Risking public censure and the prospect of being outed, she joined one of American's first lesbian organizations. She was befrie…
Outlining a strategic roadmap to a food system in which slaughterhouses are obsolete - where the tastes of even the most die-hard meat eater are satisfied by innovative food technologies like cultured meats and plant-based protein
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first writte…
The poetics of space
by Bachelard, Gaston, Stilgoe, John R., Jolas, Maria
fromBeacon paperback