A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

作者在《美国种族简史》一书中，用大量的史实、数字，深入浅出地讲述了各个种族在美国的奋斗史、文化史，包括爱尔兰人、德国人、意大利人、日本人、犹太人、华人、墨西哥人、黑人、波多黎各人等。
众所周知，美国是世界文化的大熔炉。各个种族无论在基因上，还是在文化上都有其本国固有的特质。和其他种族比起来，这些固有的性质也使其在众多种族共存的环境中凸显出来。肯远离祖籍国来到美国的人们，和他们周围的人相比，更具有进取心，在面对困境时更主动，因此凸现出来的种族特点就更加明显。虽然个性或者思考方式很大程度上取决于人们所处的阶级，但是依然呈现出很多通用的成功必备的品质，比如重视教育、勤奋、积极、重视经验的传递，这适用于所有的行业。
在美国，种族成功的唯一出路是将自身传统优势发挥到极致，并坚持不懈地适应和改进。今天美国最富有的犹太人和日本人，无一不是这个经验的充分实践者。
本书1981年在美国出版，至今已30年。美国种族史具有超出种族本身的内涵，书中翔实的数据资料、对种族特点的分析和观点直到现在仍不过时，并且对于经济和文化越来越多元化的中国具有十分重要的意义。

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.