Winner of the SAMLA Studies Award Honorable Mention for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent pe
The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to
This collection of essays surveys the depiction of black people in English Literature from Shakespeare to contemporary popular fiction.
An anthology of 16 stories and excerpts from novels by African American writers includes critical essays on each author by a variety of scholars.
