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In the spring of 1993, Jan Johnson was a Minnesota farm wife and mother of four - teaching music, waitressing and driving a tractor. Then, in a breath, it was all gone. Unbearable pain. A body swollen beyond recognition. Legs that simply stopped working. Test after test came back clean. The best minds in medicine couldn't agree, except on one thing: they told her it was all in her head. She was committed to a psychiatric ward. Helpless, she was soon...

"Are you Mahmoud Khalil?" The question marked the start of a politically charged odyssey that took the Palestinian graduate student and legal resident from his pregnant wife and home in New York City, transported him across the country, and locked him up in a Louisiana detention camp under threat of deportation. His "crime": exercising his right to free speech at Columbia University, where he emerged as a leading voice against the slaughter of Palestinians...

Step into the vibrant streets of the 1970s Bronx and witness the exact moment a global movement began. Birth of a Culture gives you a front-row seat to the origins of hip-hop, told through the firsthand experiences of Grandmaster Flash--one of the founding pioneers who helped build the culture from the ground up. When you read this book, you feel the pulse of the neighborhood parks, hear the scratch of the vinyl, and experience the raw energy of a...

"In this one-of-a-kind book, Daisy Hernández fiercely interrogates one of the most complicated subjects of contemporary life and politics: citizenship. Braiding memoir, history, and cultural criticism, she exposes the truths and lies of how we define ourselves as a country and a people. Turning to her own family's stories--her mother arrived from Colombia, her father a political refugee from Castro's Cuba--Hernández shows how the very idea of citizenship...