Race and the rhetoric of resistance / Jeffrey B. Ferguson ; edited with a foreword by Werner Sollors ; afterword by George B. Hutchinson.

"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" thro...

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Main Author: Ferguson, Jeffrey B., 1964-2018 (Author)
Other Authors: Sollors, Werner (Editor, writer of foreword.)
Hutchinson, George, 1953- (writer of afterword.)
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
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Physical Description:xiii, 128 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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