In To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She shifts critic

Elizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twentieth century, revising concepts of Black authorship and of

DIVRecovers the history of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American reading societies./div

African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature—and to change th