Appiah, Anthony

Contains alphabetized articles--from Catimb? to Yolande Cornelia Giovanni--on people, places, events, and other topics related to Africa and the African-American experience, focusing on political and social history, literature, and the arts; and includes maps, charts, and tables.

Contains more than 4,400 alphabetized articles on people, places, events, and other topics related to Africa and the African-American experience, focusing on political and social history, literature, and the arts; and includes maps, charts, tables, a chronology, and a bibliography.

Explores the claims of individuality, in which a person creates their own life, and the claims of identity, the large and abstract social categories through which people define themselves.

Draws on a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy, to examine the imaginary boundaries people have drawn around themselves and other cultures and to challenge people to redraw those boundaries and appreciate the connections between people of different cultures, religions, and nations.

An introduction to contemporary philosophy that places the field's main themes and ideas in a social context during the twenty-first century.

Collection of reviews and essays by present-day scholars discussing Wright's fiction, nonfiction and autobiographical writings.