During my career my research and publications have had three main emphases: 1) African American writers’ crucial contributions to the literature of the American South; 2) 18th– and 19th-century African American writing as a rich field of literary expression and tradition; and 3) the..…

Week after week, the script changes with each new script following on the heels of the last, never any let-up, never any relief from the melodrama. ..…