Books in the African-American Literature and Culture series

The new edition of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination offers a fresh perspective on this trail blazing scholarship, and the singular importance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsbyas a challenge to the racial hegemony of biological white supremacy.

Black Outlaws

When Black runway models began throwing phones and VH1's Divas Live riveted viewers, a new paradigm for Black women had fully evolved in the form of the Black Diva. This title uses present popular culture incarnations of the Diva to detail her long relationship with Black American literary culture.