Charles Johnson
Author
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
ix, 251 p.
Description
Johnson examines the role of communications and intelligence in policing. Based on an evaluation of a unit within the Office of the Washington Attorney General, Johnson demonstrates that information flow in the criminal justice system is often hindered by self-interest and a lack of trust between members of the criminal justice community. Johnson studied people at various responsibility levels, including community corrections officers, crime investigators,...
Author
Publication Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xxxii, 335 p.
Description
"Jim McWilliams has gathered here the most significant of Charles Johnson's many interviews in a chronological progression, giving an invaluable account of Johnson's development from the late 1970s until the early years of the twenty-first century. The interviews bring up many essential elements of Johnson's life and work: his religious development from the AME Church to Buddhism; the importance to him of family; his emergence out of the civil rights...
Author
Publication Date
1990
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave travels to New Orleans only to discover that nothing but misery awaits him in the big city. As he contemplates his life, he decides that the sea holds his interest and boards the first available ship that sets sail. Soon he learns that he has boarded a slave ship enroute to Africa to collect members of a legendary tribe. The voyage is harrowing, but seeing the captured men shackled and imprisoned drives him...
12) Philosophy: an innovative introduction : fictive narrative, primary texts, and responsive writing
Author
Publication Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xxii, 344 p.
Description
An innovative introductory philosophy text that combines traditional readings and writing exercises with fictive narratives about central figures in the history of philosophy.
Author
Appears on list
Description
The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out. An unfinished novel by the author of Invisible Man.
15) Charles Johnson
Publication Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
1streaming video file (29 min.) : sound, color.
Description
This program shows how Charles Johnson, a quintessential multicultural novelist, blends black folk tales, Zen parables, 18th-century picaresque novels, and 20th-century philosophy into storytelling of remarkable vitality. Here, Johnson explains that he explores metaphysical questions against the backdrop of black American life. Oxherding Tales and Middle Passage are odysseys in search of individual identity and common values among conflicting cultures....
