"The story of an alienated Northern professional's quest for redemptive immersion in Southern Black working-class communities"--Encyclopedia Britannica (online)

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This classic study of American Black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies of th