A Stranger in the Village

Dispatches, diaries, memoirs, and letters by African-American travelers in search of home, justice, and adventure-from the Wild West to Australia.[A Stranger in the Village] will explode any lingering notions that travel writing is a white writer's game.-Bob Sipchen, Los Angeles Times

"[A] remarkable anthology." -Victoria Valentine, Emerge

"An intelligent, authoritative collection for anyone interested in travel writing, memoirs, or African-American history." -Condé Nast Traveler

"[James] Baldwin's astute observation that 'this world is white no longer, and it will never be white again,' could not be more obvious in this collection." -The Miami Herald

"A thinking person's travel anthology." -Chicago Sun-TimesFarah J. Griffin, author of Who Set You Flowin'?, is associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Cheryl J. Fish is assistant professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.