Cooper, Afua. The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. 349 pp. $22.95 (paper). [View title on Goodreads.com] Reviewed by Reginald Harris Poet and historian Afua Cooper’s compelling The Hanging of Angélique recreates and interrogates the story of the enslaved Afro-Portuguese [...]

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McDonald, Rónán. The Death of the Critic. New York, NY: Continuum Books, 2007. 176 pp. 23.95 (cloth). [View title on Goodreads.com] The Death of the Critic is a concise and persuasive argument for the necessity of an engaged, evaluative criticism of literature, one in which critics address readers instead of each other.

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Tanz, Jason.Other People’s Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America. New York, NY: Bloomsburg USA, 2007. 272 pp. $24.95 (cloth). [View Title on Goodreads.com] To be sure, there is no dearth of critical exploration of white male obsession with and love of black masculine cool. Take, for instance, Norman Mailer’s 1957 Dissent essay, [...]

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