![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He first covered these topics in the book My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War (2012) and in his 2016 article in Harper’s Magazine on Freddie Gray, “The City That Bleeds.” Himes and his book Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934–1960 (2011), which won the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize. Notably, Shelter is not the first of Jackson’s works to explore his family history or Baltimore’s contentious racial legacy. Shelter is a collection of essays that trace the struggles of being Black and middle class in Baltimore through the experiences of the author and his family. In this illuminating text, Lawrence Jackson brings to bear his impressive academic record: he holds a PhD in English and American literature from Stanford University and is currently Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University. His extensive publications include biographies of Ralph Ellison and Chester B. ![]()
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