The first novel to openly address color prejudice among black Americans, this moving tale unfolds amid the Harlem Renaissance in an enduringly relevant examination of racial, sexual, and cultural identity.

A moving tale of the hardships faced by African-American post-emancipation. A detailed exploration of the discrimination within the black community based on skin colour, with a higher value being placed…

This is a collection of the writings of Wallace Thurman (1902-1934), providing a comprehensive analogy of both the published and unpublished works of this bohemian, bisexual writer, widely regarded as…

Using works by Hubert Harrison, George S. Schuyler, and Wallace Thurman as illustrations of blackness and literature in the early twentieth century, the author investigates how these works reflect Black…