The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, ye

In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black

The work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave narratives to digital dat

Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Associatio

In To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She shifts critic