Angie Brown

A Jim Crow Romance

by Lillian Jones Horace, Editor Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, PhD

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Angie Brown

A Jim Crow Romance

by Lillian Jones Horace, Editor Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, PhD

Published Feb 28, 2017
363 Pages
Genre: FICTION / African American & Black / Historical



 

Book Details

PRESENTING ANGIE BROWN (1949), Lillian Jones Horace’s creative response to Richard Wright’s BLACK BOY (1945)

Angie Brown is determined to succeed despite the obstacles she faces in the Jim Crow world she inhabits. All she needs is to meet the right people in the right places and find true love, and the rest will be history. Will she succeed?

 

About the Author

Lillian Jones Horace, Editor Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, PhD

Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, PhD (Rice University), is the first African American to earn a PhD in the field of history from Rice University. She serves as Professor of History at Texas Southern University, where her research focuses on African American women’s intellectual history and religion in the African Diaspora. This publication affirms her commitment to fostering a sustained appreciation for the life and writings of Lillian Jones Horace (1880-1965), Texas’s, and perhaps the US South’s, earliest known African American woman novelist. Michon Benson, PhD (Rice University), serves as Visiting Professor of African American Literature at Texas Southern University. Her background includes public education, non-profit arts administration, and community development. Her research focuses on resistance and survival in Black youth popular cultural forms, particularly rap music and cinema. A local radio-show host and guest lecturer, Dr. Benson is currently working on her first novel.

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