Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Early African American Historians: A Book History and Historiography Approach — The Case of William Cooper Nell (1816–1874)....Pages 29-50
The Publication and Reception of The Southern Negro and the Public Library....Pages 51-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Widening the Paradigm of American Literature: Small Presses in the Publishing and Creation of New Hispanic Texts....Pages 79-94
Franco-American Writers: In-visible Authors in the Global Literary Market....Pages 95-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Reacting to the White Publishing World: Zora Neale Hurston and Negro Stereotypes....Pages 123-142
Beyond Mainstream Presses: Publishing Women of Color as Cultural and Political Critique....Pages 143-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
The Roots of Cane: Jean Toomer in The Double Dealer and Modernist Networks....Pages 171-192
Popular Book Clubs and the Marketing of African American Best-Sellers....Pages 193-209
The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley in Slavery’s Recollective Economies, 1773 to the Present....Pages 210-230
Epilogue — An Experience in Literary Archaeology: Publishing a Black Lost Generation....Pages 231-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-248