Jazz Country

Horace Porter is the chair of African American World Studies and professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of  Stealing Fire: The Art and Protest of James Baldwin  and one of the editors of  Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition. The first book to reassess Ralph Ellison after his death and the posthumous publication of Juneteenth,  his second novel,  Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America  explor