Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance

by Jeffrey B. Ferguson, Werner Sollors (Editor), George B. Hutchinson (Afterword)

Overview

Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his long-standing engagement with George Schuyler, culminating in his paradigm changing book The Sage of Sugar Hill. Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of “race melodrama” through the lens of which so much American cultural history and storytelling has been filtered, Ferguson’s final work is brought together here in Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781978820821
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	03/12/2021
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

JEFFREY B. FERGUSON (1964-2018) was the Karen and Brian Conway Presidential Teaching Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts, a mythical teacher, and the author of The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler, Satire, and the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Renaissance: A Brief History with Documents, and an essay on Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt for A New Literary History of America.

WERNER SOLLORS is the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Research Professor of English and African American studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

GEORGE B. HUTCHINSON is the Newton C. Farr professor of American culture in the department of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword Werner Sollors ix

Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance 1

Freedom, Equality, Race 35

A Blue Note on Black American Literary Criticism and the Blues 51

Of Mr. W.E.B. Du Bois and Others 79

Notes on Escape 93

Afterword George B. Hutchinson 113

Editor's Acknowledgments 121

Index 123