He has published such novels as Drop and Hunting in Harlem (both from Bloomsbury) and was named a James Baldwin Fellow by the U.S Artists Foundation in 2007. Johnson is an acclaimed African American novelist and teacher of creative writing at the University of Houston. During these years many light-skinned black reporters went undercover-the story at the heart of Incognegro-and “passed” for white in the racist South, risking their lives in order to observe these horrific events closeup and expose them. These terrible events carried on for decades and were chronicled in raw detail by journalists of the independent black press of the period. During the early 20 th Century, lynchings, gruesome enough already, were often preambled by the humiliation and outright torture of the innocent black victims and often captured and preserved in “souvenir” photographs handed out to the festive white crowds that attended.
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