#  Jesse McCarthy 

 

 



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Jesse McCarthy is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is the author of *The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War*, the essay collection *Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?* and a novel, *The Fugitivities.* He is editor of W. E. B. Du Bois’s *The Souls of Black Folk* for the Norton Library, co-editor at the *Norton Anthology of African American Literature*, and co-editor with Henry Louis Gates Jr. of the Norton Critical Edition of Jean Toomer’s *Cane*. His writing on literature, politics, and the arts has appeared widely including *The New York Times*, *The Washington Post*, *The Nation*, and *The New York Review of Books*.



 

 

 



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