WERNER SOLLORS teaches African American Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. The author of Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture and Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature, he edited Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader, The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans, and An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New.
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