The latest film adaptation of "The Color Purple" came out on Dec. 25. And in a kind of cultural déjà vu, a new breed of detractors have been up in arms, just as critics of "The Color Purple ...

THE TROUBLE OF COLOR: An American Family Memoir, by Martha S. Jones When Martha S. Jones was a student at SUNY New Paltz, she took a course called “Black Sociology” with Prof. James Bowen.