Two scheming sisters treat their younger sister as a servant, even forcing her to tend the fire till her face is scarred by sparks.

From the acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus comes an "engrossing and wonderful book" (The Washington Times) about the unexpected connections between Franz

From the suburbs to the ghetto , from smoking cracking to drug kingpin to almost life in prison for a crime that I committed.

Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsy--stage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americans