In the Shadow of the Black Beast: African American Masculinity in the Harlem and Southern Renaissances

Leiter presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or black beast, as a composite literary phenomenon.

PS374.N4.L45

• American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• African American men in literature
• African Americans in literature
• Masculinity in literature
• African American men -- Race identity