About the Author

Sheila Smith McKoy is associate professor of English and director of the Africana Studies Program at North Carolina State University. She is editor of Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora.

Reviews

"A brilliant, daring, and original work, forcing us to see the previously unseeable white racial violence that set the terms for black response. When Whites Riot will make a singular contribution to the bitter debate about race in America and South