In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called ''the real Negro'' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in ''the real Negro'' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to

In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called ''the real Negro'' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in ''the real Negro'' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to

In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called ''the real Negro'' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in ''the real Negro'' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to