Shelly Eversley 
Real Negro [EPUB ebook] 
The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity – what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro’ – in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro’ transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to