The essays in this book examine black cultural issues from the inside out, rather than from a majority perspective. Topics are grouped into four categories: his

In "Black, White, and Southern," David R. Goldfield shows how the struggles of black southerners to lift the barriers that had historically separated them from

The Cultural Territories of Race makes an important contribution to current policy debates by amplifying muted voices that have too often been ignored by other

In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to

Radical Ambivalence is the first book-length study of Flannery O’Connor’s attitude toward race in her fiction and correspondence. It is also the first study