American experience during the early 1900s. Set in the all-black town of Eatonville, the novel also humanizes the lives of African Americans and sheds a light on the distinct cultural beliefs, values and lifestyles of black people, particularly women. Thus, the story explores the life of an African American woman,...

The book resource selected for this review is called The Cultural Politics of Fur. Author Julia Emberley (1997) examines the topic of fur and its relationship with politics and how those two concepts have influenced one another. Emberley (1997) looks at these issues in global and historical contexts, tracing the...

When Mineko Iwasaki wrote her autobiography Geisha, A Life, she was responding and attempting to reclaim her history after Golden published Memoirs of a Geisha in 1997. In her book, Iwasaki attempts to give a detailed picture of her life in a culture that was somewhat foreign to the rest...

In Shahla Talebi’s Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment of Iran, an associate professor at the Religious Studies Faculty at Arizona State University provides a first-hand account of her experiences as a political prisoner in Iran in the post-Islamic revolution period. Talebi’s narrative is, on the one hand, an...

There are some historians who still believe in writing about the expansion of human civilization over time in an honest fashion. While some might like to romanticize it, the fact of the matter is that specific civilizations conquered others and either bended them into society or wiped them out altogether....