California Literary Review » African American http://calitreview.com Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:57:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire http://calitreview.com/5483 http://calitreview.com/5483#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:25:51 +0000 Zorianna Kit http://calitreview.com/?p=5483 Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives such a frightening performance as Mary Jones, the Academy should just hand over the Oscar statuette to her now. Her scene towards the end when she is confronted by both Precious and Weiss for all her wicked deeds is enough to make your stomach churn.]]> http://calitreview.com/5483/feed 3 Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert http://calitreview.com/4410 http://calitreview.com/4410#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:24:07 +0000 David Lida http://calitreview.com/?p=4410 http://calitreview.com/4410/feed 1 Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower http://calitreview.com/3167 http://calitreview.com/3167#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 14:04:18 +0000 David Lida http://calitreview.com/?p=3167 http://calitreview.com/3167/feed 0 A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill http://calitreview.com/3076 http://calitreview.com/3076#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:46:29 +0000 David Lida http://calitreview.com/?p=3076 http://calitreview.com/3076/feed 2 Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption http://calitreview.com/2887 http://calitreview.com/2887#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:08:02 +0000 David Lida http://calitreview.com/?p=2887 http://calitreview.com/2887/feed 1 The Help by Kathryn Stockett http://calitreview.com/2526 http://calitreview.com/2526#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:59:28 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=2526 http://calitreview.com/2526/feed 51 A Mercy by Toni Morrison http://calitreview.com/1895 http://calitreview.com/1895#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:17:44 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=1895 http://calitreview.com/1895/feed 3 T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Discusses Hip Hop’s Attitude Toward Women http://calitreview.com/225 http://calitreview.com/225#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:43:42 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com//2007/06/15/t-denean-sharpley-whiting-discusses-hip-hops-attitude-toward-women/ http://calitreview.com/225/feed 3 Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the British Blues Revival http://calitreview.com/214 http://calitreview.com/214#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:52:46 +0000 Gayle F. Wald http://calitreview.com//2007/06/11/sister-rosetta-tharpe-and-the-british-blues-revival/ http://calitreview.com/214/feed 0