Brooks E. Hefner is associate professor of English at James Madison University. His book, The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism, is forthcoming in 2017.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
How It Happens Here: Race and American Anti-Fascist Literature
Brooks E. Hefner on "The Black Stockings," William Thomas Smith's 1937 serial aimed at working- and middle-class African-American readers....
