Summary
"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gat... Full description
- The Black Box
- Writing Racism, Writing Resistance
- Naming Conventions : Self-Expression and Group Identity
- The Power and Politics of the Slave Narrative : Frederick Douglass
- The Politics of Dis-Respectability
- Literature versus Propaganda : The New Negro, the Harlem Renaissance, and the "True Art of a Race's Past"
- Modernism and Its Discontents : Du Bois, Hurston, and Wright
- Sell-Outs or Race Men : Narratives of Passing and Defining Blackness.