This volume studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual members of this community.

This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries - presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.

This in-depth study focuses on black women migrants to the Northern states of America and in doing so examines the interaction of race, class, regionalism, and gender during the early years of the 20th century.

This text conducts a selective survey of 12 authors from colonized cultures showing how each writer has necessarily created hybrid texts, in which the voice of the oppressed and the language of the oppressor blend, in order to find a space from which to speak. At work in these texts, Daniels shows, is an act of appropriation whereby the thinkers and writers of colonized cultures must learn the language of the colonizer and talk back to their community, thus making themselves translators who occupy a constructed hybrid space between two cultures. Covering three continents and over 100 years,...