Tag: Sutton Griggs

  • In The Problem of the Prism, I argue that activist writers challenged the normalizing of white supremacy and imagined black futurity within the intersections of racial visibility, nation, and culture by transforming and repurposing racist and colorist ideologies. Through a wide range of cultural materials, I recuperate overlooked discourses on race and color by broadening…

  • Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction University of Michigan Press 2013 232 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-472-11861-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-472-02890-0 Andreá N. Williams, Associate Professor of English Ohio State University Photograph of John and Lugenia Burns Hope and family, undated, Atlanta University Photographs—Individuals, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library (Pictured…