Howard Rambsy II, Distinguished Research Professor of Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA, specializes in African American literature and comic books. He is the author of The Black Arts Enterprise (2011) and Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (2020) and the creator of the podcast Remarkable Receptions.Kenton Rambsy is Associate Professor of African American Literature and Digital Humanities at Howard University, USA. He is the author of The Geographies of African American Short Fiction (2022).

Every scholar who teaches an African American literature survey will recognize the dilemma at the heart of this book: we cannot include everyone, and our exclusions accumulate into something larger thanany one syllabus. Howard and Kenton Rambsy meet that dilemma with clarity and intellectual generosity. One Black Writer at a Time belongs on the shelf of every literary scholar, but it also belongs in the hands of graduate students learning to think structurally about reception, canon, and the institutions that shape both.

• List of FiguresIntroduction 1. How The New York Times Covers Black Writers 2. How Norton and Other Anthologies Represent Black Writers3. People Who Read Toni Morrison 4. Two Black Writers at a Time: Colson Whitehead and Ta-Nehisi Coates5. A Sociology of 1,000 Black Writers Conclusion Notes BibliographyIndex

Howard Rambsy II, Distinguished Research Professor of Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA, specializes in African American literature and comic books. He is the author of The Black Arts Enterprise (2011) and Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (2020) and the creator of the podcast Remarkable Receptions.Kenton Rambsy is Associate Professor of African American Literature and Digital Humanities at Howard University, USA. He is the author of The Geographies of African American Short Fiction (2022).

Every scholar who teaches an African American literature survey will recognize the dilemma at the heart of this book: we cannot include everyone, and our exclusions accumulate into something larger thanany one syllabus. Howard and Kenton Rambsy meet that dilemma with clarity and intellectual generosity. One Black Writer at a Time belongs on the shelf of every literary scholar, but it also belongs in the hands of graduate students learning to think structurally about reception, canon, and the institutions that shape both.

• List of FiguresIntroduction 1. How The New York Times Covers Black Writers 2. How Norton and Other Anthologies Represent Black Writers3. People Who Read Toni Morrison 4. Two Black Writers at a Time: Colson Whitehead and Ta-Nehisi Coates5. A Sociology of 1,000 Black Writers Conclusion Notes BibliographyIndex

Howard Rambsy II, Distinguished Research Professor of Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA, specializes in African American literature and comic books. He is the author of The Black Arts Enterprise (2011) and Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (2020) and the creator of the podcast Remarkable Receptions.Kenton Rambsy is Associate Professor of African American Literature and Digital Humanities at Howard University, USA. He is the author of The Geographies of African American Short Fiction (2022).

Every scholar who teaches an African American literature survey will recognize the dilemma at the heart of this book: we cannot include everyone, and our exclusions accumulate into something larger thanany one syllabus. Howard and Kenton Rambsy meet that dilemma with clarity and intellectual generosity. One Black Writer at a Time belongs on the shelf of every literary scholar, but it also belongs in the hands of graduate students learning to think structurally about reception, canon, and the institutions that shape both.

• List of FiguresIntroduction 1. How The New York Times Covers Black Writers 2. How Norton and Other Anthologies Represent Black Writers3. People Who Read Toni Morrison 4. Two Black Writers at a Time: Colson Whitehead and Ta-Nehisi Coates5. A Sociology of 1,000 Black Writers Conclusion Notes BibliographyIndex