Allen Patterson: 4 books

In the future, there is no disease, no hunger, and no war; unless you don't have a birth-tag. If you don't have a birth-tag you are an Illegal. Then disease, hunger, and war are all you know. It is 2207 and Earth has changed dramatically. After nearly destroying ourselves in a global war, humans...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...

"It's him, the Dutchman..." Other names had come and gone in his lifetime, but the Dutchman always was his identity. It had been the name given him decades ago by a Frenchman. It was the only name that had stuck. The same Frenchman had given the African his nickname. The African was the...