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African American Actresses
Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African American Actresses. Charlene Regester poses questions about prevailing racial politics, on-screen and off-screen identities, and black stardom and white stardom. She reveals how these women fought for their roles as well as what they compromised (or didn't compromise). Regester repositions these actresses to highlight their contributions to cinema in the first half of the 20th century, taking an informed theoretical, historical, and critical approach.
Black Cat Weekly #205
This issue, we have classic novels by Augusta Tucker Townsend (writing as Means Davis) and science fiction Grandmaster Lester del Rey. Our more-than-plentiful lineup of original shorts includes tales by Dan Crosby, Dan Leicht, Jesse Bethea, Larry Hodges, Gary Battershell, and Christopher Pate. (And, of course, there’s a new solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles!) Our classic reprints are by Miriam Allen de Ford and Hal Meredith (a classic Sexton Blake mystery). Here’s the complete lineup— Cover Art: Ron Miller NOVELS The Hospital Murders, by Means Davis [Classic Mystery] Why are patients dying mysteriously in the same hospital bed? Rockets to Nowhere, by Lester del Rey [Classic Sc...
Highway Heist
In this eye-opening book, Professor James Bennett guides readers through centuries of one of the most underrated yet widely used aspects of American life—roads. Relying on history and economic data—and with a humorous and oftentimes sharp tongue—Bennett explains how important America's highways and byways have been to everything from policymaking to everyday life. Crafting America's roads took persuasion, planning—and more taxes than any politician could have dreamed of. And far too often their realization, thanks, in Bennett's view, to flawed interpretations of the power of eminent domain, required destruction, sometimes on a massive scale, of long-established neighborhoods and impo...
The Organic Profit
From green-lifestyle mavens who endorse products on social media to natural health activists sponsored by organic food companies, the marketplace for advice about how to live life naturally is better stocked than ever. Where did the curious idea of buying one’s way to sustainability come from? In no small part, as Andrew Case shows, the answer lies in the story of entrepreneur and reformer J. I. Rodale, his son Robert Rodale, and their company, the Rodale Press. These pioneers of organic gardening were also pioneers in cultivating a niche for natural health products in the 1950s, organizing the emerging marketplace for organic foods in the 1960s, and publishing an endless supply of advice ...
