Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Early African American Historians: A Book History and Historiography Approach — The Case of William Cooper Nell (1816–1874)

Chapter 3 The Publication and Reception of The Southern Negro and the Public Library

Chapter 4 Widening the Paradigm of American Literature: Small Presses in the Publishing and Creation of New Hispanic Texts

Chapter 5 Franco-American Writers: In-visible Authors in the Global Literary Market

Chapter 6 Reacting to the White Publishing World: Zora Neale Hurston and Negro Stereotypes

Chapter 7 Beyond Mainstream Presses: Publishing Women of Color as Cultural and Political Critique

Chapter 8 The Roots of Cane: Jean Toomer in The Double Dealer and Modernist Networks

Chapter 9 Popular Book Clubs and the Marketing of African American Best-Sellers

Chapter 11 Epilogue — An Experience in Literary Archaeology: Publishing a Black Lost Generation