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The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.

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A memoir of grit and perseverance as a pre-gentrified Brooklyn native overcomes meager beginnings to find comfort and success, from former entertainment attorney and current Microsoft Associate General Counsel, Bruce Jackson.

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo's architectural and industrial history.

Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them

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Bruce Jackson speaks out about the stories that lie hidden within the inner city streets of urban America. Enter into a world unknown to many... the Underground.

A memoir of grit and perseverance as a pre-gentrified Brooklyn native overcomes meager beginnings to find comfort and success, from former entertainment attorney and current Microsoft Associate General Counsel, Bruce Jackson.

Voices from Death Row is considered a classic work on the strange "living limbo" inhabited by condemned men in Texas, who await resolution of their sentence in execution, death by other causes, commutation to a term of life sentence, or exoneration. This book offers first-person accounts of life on death row that still holds for condemned men and women today. The accessibility the authors had to Texas Death Row in 1979-to sit in the cells and ...

A novel of the life, death, and resurrection Of one who rejected life and demanded death. A rose is just another flower until you smell its fragrance and prick your finger on its thorn. What is life like beyond the veil of death? What might our guardian angels say to us as we live our lives on earth? What would resurrected family and friends tell us about their experience on the mansion worlds? In this age of alternative truth, materialism, ...

In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories are made and used, Jackson examines how stories narrate and bring meaning to our lives. Jackson writes about his family and friends, acquaintances, and experiences, focusing on more than a dozen personal stories. From oral histo...

A novel of the life, death, and resurrectionOf one who rejected life and demanded death. A rose is just another flower until you smell its fragrance and prick your finger on its thorn. What is life like beyond the veil of death? What might our guardian angels say to us as we live our lives on earth? What would resurrected family and friends tell us about their experience on the mansion worlds? In this age of alternative truth, materialism, del...

Rocker Rod Stewart, Jackson says, had it wrong when he titled his breakthrough album Every Picture Tells a Story. Pictures don't tell stories-but many of them call to mind stories or have stories about their making. Throughout his sixty-year career as folklorist, ethnographer, criminologist, filmmaker, and journalist, Bruce Jackson has taken photographs of family, friends, people he worked with, people he studied, and people he encountered. W...

Voices from Death Row is considered a classic work on the strange "living limbo" inhabited by condemned men in Texas, who await resolution of their sentence in execution, death by other causes, commutation to a term of life sentence, or exoneration. This book offers first-person accounts of life on death row that still holds for condemned men and women today. The accessibility the authors had to Texas Death Row in 1979-to sit in the cells and ...

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Torn from his family at the age of five, Bruce Jackson was put in a children's home, then grew up going from foster home to foster home. This gritty but ultimately hopeful memoir takes the reader through the fears and uncertainties he had to deal with for the next several years, navigating his way through the antics of grammar school, the traumas of high school, and beyond. No matter what obstacles you face in life, eventually you must decide ...

Bruce Jackson is director of the Center for Studies in American Culture, State University of New York at Buffalo. A past president of the American Folklore Society, he is the editor of the Journal of American Folklore and the author, editor, producer, and director of numerous books, articles, records, and films. ¿

Renowned documentary photographer Bruce Jackson presents a profoundly moving, irreplaceable portrait of the southern prison farm and the men who lived and labored on these relics of the American slave plantation.