Impermanent Blackness

"""Eye-opening. . . . Garibaldi’s conclusions regarding the ‘challenges and opportunities that underpin commitments to building an inclusive American society’ are timely and penetrating. This is a vital look at a transformative era in American literature."" * Publishers Weekly * ""A compelling and readable account of how the relationship between emerging Black authors and their predominantly white-run publishing firms developed in the USA between the 1910s and the 1960s. . . . Impermanent Blackness provides a window on an important aspect of American literary history.""---Terry Potter, Letterpress Project ""Impermanent Blackness is a very interesting and insightful read about a key period in American literary culture and publishing.""---Ilina Jha, Redbrick Culture ""Garibaldi’s critical work traces the ups and downs of [the] interracial aesthetic from the beginning of the twentieth century to the 1960s. In the process, he adds another dimension to our understanding of the complex racial dynamics of this era. . . .Garibaldi does an excellent job of describing both the thick history and the wider conceptual stakes.""---Paul Giles, Australian Book Review ""Impermanent Blackness is among the most important and original monographs about twentieth-century US print culture I’ve read in years, with an argument that should change our understanding of the racial dynamics in US publishing, and thus of the trajectory of US literature itself.""---Greg Barnhisel, American Literary History"