Tag: Charles Johnson

  • A neglected tour de force by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, “Kingsblood Royal” is a stirring and wickedly funny portrait of a man who resigns from the white race.

  • Oxherding Tale: A Novel Scribner (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) 1982 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780743264495 eBook ISBN: 9780743277419 Charles Johnson, Pollock Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives,…

  • Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939-1964 Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), photographer, promotor of literary talent, and critic of dance, theater, and opera, had an artistic vision rooted in the centrality of the talented person. He cherished accomplishment, whether in…

  • A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry passes for white. A master and a slave change places for a single night. An interracial marriage turns sour. The birth of a…