Kenneth WarrenKenneth W. Warren is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of What Was African American Literature? (2010); So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (003); and Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (1993) and coeditor of Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Material and Ideological Foundations of African American Thought (2010); Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (2013); and Imperium in Imperio by Sutton E. Griggs: A Critical Edition (2022). Read More Read Less