In the southern United States, there remains a deep need among both black and white writers to examine the topic of race relations, whether they grew up during segregation or belong to the younger generation that graduated from integrated schools. In Race Mixing, Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers--black and white, established and emerging. Their stories explore the possibilities of cross-racial friendships, examine the repressed history of interracial love, reimagine the Civil Rights era through...
In the southern United States, there remains a deep need among both black and white writers to examine the topic of race relations, whether they gr...
Contributors to this work continue the work of critically remapping the South through their studies of southern literature and culture. In appraising representations of the South within a context that is postmodern, diverse, and international, the essays present multiple ways of imagining the South and examine both new places and old landscapes in an attempt to tie the mythic southern balloon down to earth. They explore the roles that economic, racial, and ideological tensions have played in the formation of southern identity through varying representations of locality, moving regionalism...
Contributors to this work continue the work of critically remapping the South through their studies of southern literature and culture. In appraising ...
The complex truth about the color line-its destructive effects, painful legacy, clandestine crossings, possible erasure-is revealed more often in private than in public and has sometimes been visited more easily by novelists than historians. In this tradition, Crossing the Color Line, a powerful collection of nineteen contemporary stories, speaks the unspoken, explores the hidden, and voices both fear and hope about relationships between blacks and whites.
The complex truth about the color line-its destructive effects, painful legacy, clandestine crossings, possible erasure-is revealed more often in priv...
