Introduction / George Hutchinson and John K. Young
The Brief Wondrous Life of the Anglo-African Magazine : or, Antebellum African American Editorial Practice and Its Afterlives / Ivy G. Wilson
Representing African American Literature : or, Tradition against the Individual Talent / George Hutchinson
"Quite as human as it is Negro" : Subpersons and Textual Property in Native Son and Black Boy / John K. Young
The Colors of Modernism : Publishing African Americans, Jews, and Irish in the 1920s / George Bornstein
More than McKay and Guillén : The Caribbean in Hughes and Bontemps's The Poetry of the Negro (1949) / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
Editorial Federalism : The Hoover Raids, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Origins of FBI Literary Surveillance / William J. Maxwell
Loosening the Straightjacket : Rethinking Racial Representation in African American Anthologies / Gene Andrew Jarrett
"Let the World Be a Black Poem" : Some Problems of Recollecting and Editing Black Arts Texts / James W. Smethurst
Textual Productions of Black Aesthetics Unbound / Margo Natalie Crawford
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