Discussion of the American writer's novels. Presents Tourgee as a carpetbagger, lawyer, politician, businessman, and journalist in the South and his ideas for improving the condition of the Negro.

Drawing on fiction, poetry, drama, and critical essays, The Literature of American Jews is a testimony to the rich literary expression of Jewish Americans - its birth in the migration of Eastern Europeans, its later record of that immigrant experience, and its remarkable flowering after World War II.

Anthology of African American literature from the 1890s to the 1960s.