Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s

In Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing—authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnerships across racial lines—from the 1910s to the 1960s. Garibaldi shows how aspiring and established Black authors and editors worked closely with white interlocutors to achieve publishing success, often...