Transition 99 by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Transition’s authors represent an astonishingly broad range of views and backgrounds: journalists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and scholars of diverse disciplines are just some of the free thinkers who enliven each issue. By soliciting unusual writing from diverse sources, the magazine transcends the compartmentalization that stifles both literary journals and the academic pursuit of ethnic studies. Often contentious and always original, the magazine is a clearinghouse for today’s freshest, most compelling ideas about ethnicity and identity.