Lawrence P. Jackson is professor of English and African American Studies at Emory University. He is the author of The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics and My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

A Little Hysterical: The Young Lives of Chester and Jean
How the extraordinary novel "Lonely Crusade" by Chester Himes wounded his marriage, unsettled his friends, and earned him literary foes....

Pictures from a Peculiar Institution: Writing American Slavery
SLAVERY STILL MAKES NEWS in the United States. In a recent public scandal, the president of a well-endowed private research university ...
