Kenneth Warren

Kenneth 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 (2003); 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 ...See more

Kenneth 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 (2003); 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). See less