Böcker av Kenneth W. Warren

Maps the changing conditions of black political practice and experience from Emancipation to Obama with excursions into the Jim Crow era, Black Power radicalism, and the Reagan revolt. This book includes essays that define historically and conceptually discrete problems affecting black Americans.

African American literature is over. With this provocative claim, the author sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature - and to change the terms with which we discuss it.

Using Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and many of his essays as a starting point, Kenneth W. Warren argues that Ellison expresses the problem of who. or what could represent and speak for the Negro in an age of limited political representation.