Showcasing the newest generation of black women writers, including ZZ Packer, Edwidge Danticat, and Shay Youngblood, Shaking the Tree gathers twenty-three voices that came of age in the wake of the ci
Black, white, and biracial artists, actors, writers, and comedians ponder the role of the black body in American culture. Among their perspectives are hair apparent, my ace in the hole, our kind of pe
