Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance

JEFFREY B. FERGUSON (1964-2018) was the Karen and Brian Conway Presidential Teaching Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts, a mythical teacher, and the author of The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler, Satire, and the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Renaissance: A Brief History with Documents, and an essay on Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt for A New Literary History of America. WERNER SOLLORS is the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Research Professor of English and African American studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GEORGE B. HUTCHINSON is the Newton C. Farr professor of American culture in the department of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Table of Contents
Foreword
1. Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance
2. Freedom, Equality, Race
3. A Blue Note on Black American Literary Criticism and the Blues
4. Of Mr. W. E. B. Du Bois and Others
Notes on Escape
Afterword
Editor's Acknowledgments