Imagine being a rockstar, traveling with your band and striving to outdo the Beatles. For Ravynn St. John, lead singer of Phoenix Rising, reality is complicated. The year is 1968, and as the band’s world tour kicks off , Ravynn must handle fame while hiding his true self. The twenty-year-old frontman struggles to keep his lie intact. Behind the sold-out shows and the adoring fans, he’s hiding the truth—he’s homosexual, disowned by his family. The family he has left is his band and manageme...

Ten authors explore the range of gay literature in essays, memoir, short stories, poetry, and excerpts from longer works. All proceeds will be donated to the Matthew Shepard Foundation and the Trevor Project.

Inspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary, this collection addresses the significance of Brown in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. Several authors describe their personal roles in the Brown case or similar cases, while others examine and illustrate events, performances, and exhibitions that were part of the anniversary commemoration. The book not only explo...

This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural application of support. The John Henrik Clarke query is who made this arrangement of leadership in America. Moreover, serving as a reference, this study will assist researchers in contextualizing and thematically examining the structur...

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is refreshing, and reflects the varied emotional and critical responses that bring meaning to this ca...

The introduction of "Black" studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, and future considerations for the discipline o...