Bøker av Allison Davis

"Deep South was originally published in 1941, documenting in startling detail the nuances, character, and lived realities of racism in a southern town. Allison Davis and his co-authors, Burleigh and Mary Gardner, all went undercover, not revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one another. Their analysis notably revealed the importance of caste and class to both Black and White worldviews, and it anatomized how those are constructed, reified, and reinforced. Deep South is freshly relevant today to those interested in the concept of caste and how it continues to inform the many flavors of American inequality"--

Whether it's due to separation or death, no words can express the feelings one has when losing a loved one. What are you feeling? Angry? Hurt? Sad? Regretful? Guilt? You can recover and go on to live a rich full, life, and Allison Davis tells you how.

Spanning oceans and continents, language and the imagination, the unfathomable distances between people and their desires, Allison Davis' Poppy Seeds creates an `immaculate atlas'. Here language is `broken. . . against the margin of the sea', and a word is a thing that can be `wash[ed] away'.