Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary i
This book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans in the South. Sherita L. Johnson argues that it is impos
From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the Am
What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recre
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's exper