The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.

Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how black artists--including well-known figures such as writers Ralph Ellison

In revealing the source of the ideology of whiteness in the imagination, Cassuto turns to images of blackness in American literature and culture from 1622 to 18

An anthology of 16 stories and excerpts from novels by African American writers includes critical essays on each author by a variety of scholars.

Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture and politics, and makes his case through the exam