On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack
Eugene Rivers
The Hidalgo’s Hat and a Hawk’s Bell of Gold
Martín Espada
Mismeasuring Democracy
Anthony A. Parker
A Challenge to the Racial Order
Miren Uriarte
Race, Democracy, and the Democrats
Ira Katznelson
Reviewed:
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
by Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall. W. W. Norton & Co., 1992.
The Virtue Called Vanity
Randall Kenan
Strangers in Fields Corner
Mai-Lan Pham
French Girls are Fast
Cheryl Savageau
Democratic Dreams
Richard Valelly
Reviewed:
The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions
by Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon. The Free Press, 1992.
Poet’s Sampler
Michael Ryan introduces Diane Swan
Readers’ Forum
Letters from Annie McCombs, Lise Weil, Anne Dellenbaugh, Margaret Stetz, and Clair del Real. Martha Nussbaum and Rebecca Nemser respond.
The Bird
Meghan Keith-Hynes
Liberalism and Multiculturalism
Lawrence Blum
Reviewed:
Multiculturalism and “The Politics of Recognition”
by Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmann, Susan Wolf, Steven Rockefeller, and Michael Walzer. Princeton University Press, 1992.
Second Proms and Second Primaries
Lani Guinier
Brief Reviews
Reviewed:
Covenant
by Alan Shapiro. University of Chicago Press, 1991.
I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
by Susan Straight. Hyperion, 1992.
The Sioux Dog Dance: Shunk Ah Weh
by Red Hawk. Cleveland State Poetry Center, 1991.
Home Country
by Cheryl Savageau. alicejamesbooks, 1992.
Straight Outta Compton
by Ricardo Cortez Cruz. Fiction Collective Two, 1992.
The Long Night of White Chickens
by Francisco Goldman. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992.
