Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America

1. Introduction
Cécile Cottenet

Part I. Historiography

2. Early African American Historians: A Book History and Historiography Approach — The Case of William Cooper Nell (1816–1874)
Claire Parfait

3. The Publication and Reception of The Southern Negro and the Public Library
Cheryl Knott

Part II. Bilingualism and Ethnic Identity

4. Widening the Paradigm of American Literature: Small Presses in the Publishing and Creation of New Hispanic Texts
Manuel Brito

5. Franco-American Writers: In-visible Authors in the Global Literary Market
Peggy Pacini

Part III. Challenging Stereotypes: A Gendered Perspective

6. Reacting to the White Publishing World: Zora Neale Hurston and Negro Stereotypes
Claudine Raynaud

7. Beyond Mainstream Presses: Publishing Women of Color as Cultural and Political Critique
Matilde Martín González

Part IV. Re-visiting the Canon

8. The Roots of Cane: Jean Toomer in The Double Dealer and Modernist Networks
John K. Young

9. Popular Book Clubs and the Marketing of African American Best-Sellers
Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

10. The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley in Slavery’s Recollective Economies, 1773 to the Present
Max Cavitch

11. Epilogue — An Experience in Literary Archaeology: Publishing a Black Lost Generation
Samuel Blumenfeld

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, African Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature