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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

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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

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