... ;tried to imagine where the 'Colored' and 'Whites Only' signs would have hung, then realized she didn't have ... All five blacks waited in one area, all three whites in another." Packer's prose is wielded like a kitchen knife, ... never end neatly or easily. Packer knows how to keep the tone provocative and tense at the close of each tale, doing justice to the complexity and ...

... -- Alaska's Native Americans were no more likely to die of swine flu, but were far more likely than whites to be sent to the hospital with severe symptoms, said the CDC's Dr. Thomas ... in cholesterol and blood pressure. "Although observational studies have limitations ... this provocative hypothesis should nonetheless be subject to some further evaluation by the agency," staff in ...

... (1965), about the civil rights workers murdered in 1964. He was vilified by innumerable Southern whites, but he stuck to his guns. All in all he published 21 books, about evenly divided between fiction and ... The Revolt of Mamie Stover" in hopes of titillation, a second time through I find it smart, provocative and funny. The N-word pops up with a frequency that will unnerve today's reader ...

... "In his autobiography, Malcolm X issued a challenge to 'well-meaning' whites to work within their own communities to solve the problem of racism. A growing body of scholarship by ... Hannah Arendt. ...Liska (Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium) proffers nuanced, insightful, often provocative interpretations of selected works of interest to scholars of these particular writers. ...Recommended." ...

... the potentially clich&#233d color palette of blacks, golds, ombres, and deathly whites come across magnificently. Derek, on the other hand, couldn't take the kitsch, the length, the emotional ... was an even more impressive experience. I'm not being churlish or purposefully provocative in saying that the conjuration of hopelessness and existential drift at the end of The Mist packed a ...