Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White - Paperback

by Suzanne W. Jones (Editor)

The complex truth about the color line-its destructive effects, painful legacy, clandestine crossings, possible erasure-is revealed more often in private than in public and has sometimes been visited more easily by novelists than historians. In this tradition, Crossing the Color Line, a powerful collection of nineteen contemporary stories, speaks the unspoken, explores the hidden, and voices both fear and hope about relationships between blacks and whites.

Author Biography

Suzanne W. Jones is an associate professor of English at the University of Richmond in Virginia. She is the editor of another collection of stories, Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature, and a collection of essays, Writing the Woman Artist. Jones has published articles on twentieth-century American fiction, women writers, and the literature of the South. Jones lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.