Racist Traces and Other Writing European Pedigrees/ African Contagions

This volume is a selection of significant and previously unpublished essays and short stories by the influential critic of German and American literature and popular culture, James A. Snead. The volume contains innovative essays and notes about African American popular culture, literary criticism and five pieces of short fiction. Published posthumously, the volume attests to Snead's unique intellectual commitment to a critical engagement with the interconnections between European and African American cultural formations.

James A. Snead was Associate Professor of English and German Literature at the University of Pittsburgh.

Kara Keeling is a Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Colin MacCabe is a Distinguished Service Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh.

Cornel West is University Professor of Religion, Princeton University.