Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why Mencken?
  • Mencken and "the colored brother"
  • The age of satire: the teacher and his pupils
  • The dream of the secular city: Mencken, Locke, and the "little American renaissance"
  • Et tu Mencken? The end of the romance
  • The Negro novel and the limits of realism
  • Epilogue.