If you liked the film SinnersLike this list

20 items

• Michael B. Jordan

  McManus, Celina, 1992-

  Add Michael B. Jordan to your for later shelf

  Actor Michael B. Jordan is known for connecting with his characters, including playing the villain in the Hollywood blockbuster Black Panther. Learn more about his rise to fame!

• Escaping the Delta

  Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

  Wald, Elijah

  Add Escaping the Delta to your for later shelf

  Robert Johnson's story presents a fascinating paradox: Why did this genius of the Delta blues excite so little interest when his records were first released in the 1930s? And how did this brilliant but obscure musician come to be hailed long after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chinese in America

  a Narrative History

  Chang, Iris

  Add The Chinese in America to your for later shelf

  Iris Chang, the daughter of second-wave Chinese immigrants, has written an extraordinary narrative that encompasses the entire history of one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, an epic story that spans 150 years and continues…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Irish Americans

  Haugen, Brenda

  Add The Irish Americans to your for later shelf

  Discusses the history of Irish immigration to the United States and covers their customs, traditions, and the impact that famous Irish immigrants have had on American culture.

• Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential

  House Parties, Hustlers & the Blues Life

  Stolle, Roger

  Add Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential to your for later shelf

  Juke joint - two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All juke joints are blues clubs, but not all blues clubs are jukes. Here, artist recollections and insights delve below the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 1920s and 1930s

  McEvoy, Anne

  Add The 1920s and 1930s to your for later shelf

  Discusses fashion and dress for both men and women during the period between World War I and World War II.

• Prohibition

  Thirteen Years That Changed America

  Behr, Edward, 1926-2007

  Add Prohibition to your for later shelf

• The Rise of Gospel Blues

  the Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church

  Harris, Michael W.

  Add The Rise of Gospel Blues to your for later shelf

• Southern Fried Rice

  Life in a Chinese Laundry in the Deep South

  Jung, John, 1937-

  Add Southern Fried Rice to your for later shelf

  This memoir conveys the experiences, first of my parents and subsequently of our family, the only Chinese people living in Macon, Georgia between 1928 and 1956. It describes our family's isolated existence running a laundry, enduring loneliness as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Five Families

  The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

  Raab, Selwyn,

  Add Five Families to your for later shelf

  Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Way We Wore

  Black Style Then

  McCollom, Michael

  Add The Way We Wore to your for later shelf

  Michael McCollom has put together a collection of never-beforeseen photographs of the individual. 'The Way We Wore' is not only a historical piece that journeys through the African-American landscape, but also an album celebrating the individual.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Conjure Women

  a Novel

  Atakora, Afia

  Add Conjure Women to your for later shelf

  A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing--and for the conjuring of curses--are at the heart of this dazzling first novel

• Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice

  a Cocktail Recipe Book: Cocktails From Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks

  Tipton-Martin, Toni

  Add Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice to your for later shelf

  Discover the fascinating history of Black mixology and its enduring influence on American cocktail culture through 70 rediscovered, modernized, or celebrated recipes, by the James Beard Award-winning author of Jubilee .

• Passing

  Larsen, Nella

  Add Passing to your for later shelf

  Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors' Choice. Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Alexander Skarsgård

• Rethinking the Irish in the American South

  Beyond Rounders and Reelers

  Add Rethinking the Irish in the American South to your for later shelf

  Studies of the Irish presence in America have tended to look to the main corridors of emigration, and hence outside the American South. Yet the Irish constituted a significant minority in the region. Indeed, the Irish fascination expresses itself in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mississippi Chinese

  Between Black and White

  Loewen, James W.

  Add The Mississippi Chinese to your for later shelf

  Provides a history of Chinese Americans living in the Mississippi Delta region.

• King of the Delta Blues Singers

  Johnson, Robert -1938

  Add King of the Delta Blues Singers to your for later shelf

  Reading about the power inherent in Robert Johnson's music is one thing, but actually experiencing it is another matter entirely. The official 1998 edition of the original 1961 album was certainly worth the wait, remastered off the best quality…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• John Lee Hooker, His Best Chess Sides

  Hooker, John Lee

  Add John Lee Hooker, His Best Chess Sides to your for later shelf

  John Lee Hooker, as anyone with a decent-sized blues collection knows, recorded for a virtual parade of labels early in his career, including Chess, although his stays with the company were fairly brief. Hooker's best early recordings, most would…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Complete Plantation Recordings

  the Historic 1941-42 Library of Congress Field Recordings

  Muddy Waters, 1915-1983

  Add The Complete Plantation Recordings to your for later shelf

  At long last, Muddy's historic 1941-1942 Library of Congress field recordings are all collected in one place, with the best fidelity that's been heard thus far. Waters performs solo pieces (you can hear his slide rattling against the fretboard in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art of Ruth E. Carter

  Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, From Do the Right Thing to Black Panther

  Carter, Ruth E., 1960-

  Add The Art of Ruth E. Carter to your for later shelf

  Ruth E. Carter is a living legend of costume design. For three decades, she has shaped the story of the Black experience on screen--from the '80s streetwear of Do the Right Thing to the royal regalia of Coming 2 America . Her work on Marvel's Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation