“Insightful essays and interviews examine how white power structures on Broadway have shaped musical theater's representations of Black, Indigenous, and people of color, or led to their absence ... A book for all readers interested in the history of Broadway musicals, theater criticism, and the role of whiteness in Broadway's misrepresentations. ” Amy Lewontin Library Journal
“For half a century, Ishmael Reed?s been American literature?s most fearless satirist, waging a cultural forever war against the media that spans a dozen novels, nine plays and essay collections, and hundreds of poems” The New Yorker
On Powwow: Charting the Fault Lines of the American Experience?Short Fiction from Then to Now“AReed and Blank have selected molten and magical tales that dramatically explore the consequences of our attitudes toward race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality?. this is a live-wire, from-sea-to-shining-sea collection in which we hear America singing.” Donna Seaman Booklist
“Highly recommended” Gene Shaw, Library Journal“A captivating, multifarious look at the American experience through its short fiction.” Publishers Weekly
On Rediscovering America: the Making of Multicultural America, 1900-2000 written and edited by Carla Blank
“The text thus showcases Americans of color, women, immigrants, and others who shaped our country's history but have often been marginalized?. an effective, valuable historical reference work. ”
br/>“A [Ishmael Reed] is the purest literary troublemaker we currently have? a book that is arresting? always-bracing and readable. ” ? Jeff Simon, Buffalo News
“A Since the mid-twentieth century, Ishmael Reed has been deep, abrasive, and didactic, an iconoclastic champion of what is ?good? and a formidable critic of what is ?bad? in domestic and transnational affairs. Reed is a fighter, a battered but undefeated fighter.” Jerry Ward Jr.
“A That?s what I loved about Baldwin, something that I am inspired by about Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Gwendolyn Brooks?they were all darlings of the liberal establishment, and they rejected that status, which meant they were pushed to the margins.” Cornell West
“A One of our greatest writers.” Brian Flota, The Hairsplitter
“A Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he?ll open another page of American history and show you something new.” ? David Homel, Montreal Review of Books
“A With Ishmael Reed, the most persistent myths and prejudice crumble under powerful unrelenting jabs and razor-sharp insight. ” Le Devoir, Montreal
