Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel restores to its rightful place a body of American literature that has long been overlooked, dismissed, or mis

“A truly funny sendup of the corrupt politics of academe, the publishing industry and politics, as well as a subtle but biting critique of racial ideology.”

As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the sub

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

A History of the African American Novel offers an in-depth overview of the development of the novel and its major genres. In the first part of this book, Valeri