This volume celebrates the hybridity of American literary culture. Over the last decade and more, American literary studies have tended, with only a few rare an

Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see

The interconnected constructions of race and sexuality at the turn of the century.

What is "race"? What role, if any, should race play in our moral obligations to others and to ourselves? Ethics along the Color Line addresses the question of w