Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850

by John Young, George Hutchinson, John K. Young

From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts Movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book Club, African American textuality has been uniquely shaped by the contests for cultural power inherent in literary production and distribution. Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, African American literary production...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472118633
• ISBN13: 9780472118632
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"