This compelling volume brings together personal essays and memoir by a diverse group of gifted authors united by their poor or working-class origins. The contributors include …
One of the most extensive studies of class in 19th-century AfricanAmerican literature to date, Dividing Lines unveils how black fictionwriters represented the uneasy relationship …
Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class, consciously or unconsciously, through their writing, spanning from the first influx of industrialism in …
Commerce in Color examines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the public events …
