Gerald Early

Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, and director of the Center for Humanities at Washington University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the editor of several volumes, including This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s ; The Sammy Davis Jr. Reader ; Body Language: Writers on Sport ; Speech and Power ; Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of...See more

Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, and director of the Center for Humanities at Washington University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the editor of several volumes, including This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s ; The Sammy Davis Jr. Reader ; Body Language: Writers on Sport ; Speech and Power ; Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation ; and My Soul's High Song: The Collected Works of Countee Cullen , as well as the author of The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture , which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism; One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture ; Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood ; and Tuxedo Junction . See less