How did creative genius develop in tandem with the criminalization of Blackness in the early United States? In Criminal Genius in African American and US Litera

"An investigation on how the development of conceptions of genius relate to struggles over enslavement and carceral practices"--

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The beginning of the 20th

In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of

The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from