Workin’ on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History , by Walter Mosley. Library of Contemporary Thought, 118 pages, $16.95.
What’s up with Walter Mosley? Has the master of hard-boiled gone all soft and runny? Has the creator of Easy Rawlins turned his back on the genre that made him famous? Has Read More
I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. , by Michael Eric Dyson. The Free Press, 404 pages, $25.
Is there any 20th-century American icon who has been more banalized, neutralized and homogenized by mythology than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? From the day he was martyred in 1968, the Read More
Black and White on Wall Street by Joseph Jett, with Sabra Chartrand. William Morrow, 387 pages, $25.
Remember Joseph Jett? He occupies a curious place in this decade’s pantheon of scandalous black American men. His 15 minutes of infamy occurred in April 1994, about two and a half years after Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearings Read More
