This book asks why contemporary African American literature--particularly that produced by black women--is continually concerned with issues of respectability a
Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives At a moment in U.S. history with repeated reminders of the vulner
In this book, Lisa B. Thompson explores the representation of black middle-class female sexuality by African American women authors in narrative literature, dra
Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white protagonists written by African America
Haunted by representations of black women that resist the reality of the body's vulnerability, Kimberly Juanita Brown traces slavery's afterlife in black women'