Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance

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.

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.