Postmodernism and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addr

The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysis in 1998.

Everybody’s America reassesses Pynchon’s literary career in order to explain the central role played by the racialization of American culture in the postmod

The 'transnational' turn has transformed modernist studies, challenging Western authority over modernism and positioning race and racial theories at the very ce

In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed