Scholarly Writing
A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing
Edited by Cheryl J. Fish and Farah J. Griffin
Beacon Press, 1999
This anthology documents two centuries of writing by African-Americans who have traveled abroad in search of new opportunities, political insight, pleasure, and adventure. Includes work by James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Matthew Henson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and more.
[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-Times