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“There are no Dilseys here. If white authors had the luxury to canonize long-suffering Blacks, the Black author has had a more complex and more painful relation to the subject. One cannot but wince to learn how many of these authors worked as maids, sometimes even after they had achieved a degree of literary success.”—The New York Times Book Review

There are no Dilseys here. If white authors had the luxury to canonize long-suffering Blacks, the Black author has had a more complex and more painful relation to the subject. One cannot but wince to learn how many of these authors worked as maids, sometimes even after they had achieved a degree of literary success. --The New York Times Book Review

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Trudier Harris is University Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of English, the University of Alabama, and J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she taught courses in African American literature and folklore. A few of her many published books are The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South; Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature; Depictions of Home in African American Literature, and her memoir, Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South. On March 10, 2023, Dr. Harris was inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame.

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