After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition. — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
“To safeguard the holiest symbol of their Catholic faith, the Toledo churchmen, escorted by a small cohort of armed nobles, had fled with the… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
“Returning to Cordoba immediately after the slaughter, Mughith established a precedent of historic political and religious impact. He assembled all of the Jews in… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
“Most of history is indisputably written by the winners, yet "winning" at Poitiers actually meant that the economic, scientific, and cultural levels that Europeans… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship,… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
“In any case, the royal remains of the last Goth to rule Hispania were never found-only his magnificent white stallion, still saddled and dead… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
