Lawrence P. Jackson

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.

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....

LAWRENCE P. JACKSON

FICTION

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 in the Deep South compared the Three-Fifths Compromise in the US Constitution to a “new idea [that] points the ...

LAWRENCE P. JACKSON