Charles Scruggs is professor of English at the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s.

A substantial contribution to both the discourse of defining the African American literary tradition and the exegesis of the literature of the American city. Callaloo This work will be hard to ignore, for it addresses the challenges to and possibilities for African Americans in cities now and incenturies to come. Library Journal