I would like to share with you news about the book Cinderella Story by James Haywood Rolling Jr. published by Alta Mira Press.

From a post at Graeme Sullivan's Blog, Art Practice as Research:

"Cinderella Story argues that a poststructural and unexpected identity can be created from the charred embers of self-imagery strewn about an ash heap of stereotypes—reinterpreted atop a pyre of modern identity constructs, authoritative stories, and assigned names. Consequentially, a Cinderella ending is not the end of a story; rather, it is the inauguration of a new ever after. While this new book contributes to the canon of African American Studies literature, it will not present yet another dubious narrative of the pathology of being Black in America. In fact, the story of being Black in America has always been a story of transformation; as such, this book may be considered a Cinderella Story and is so titled. The variations of the story of being Black in America are too profuse to be contained within the oversimplified and fictive contemporary signifier known as race. And that is the point of this writing. African Americans are more than we are expected to be, more than racial definition allows—an ongoing reinterpretation of injurious social constructs. Cinderella Story is an arts-based inquiry—the outcome of a methodology that researches contemporary visual and popular cultural markers in search of a story still under construction—as well as an inquiry that depicts identity as a continuing work of art, and the arts as a continuing work of collective identity."

Both Graeme Sullivan and Norman K. Denzin have endorsed the book.

The superb cover art is also by James Haywood Rolling Jr.