Culture writer Ilina Jha reviews Korey Garibaldi's debut book which revisits the almost forgotten American interracial literary culture which advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s
"The Foxes of Harrow" (1946), a Southern historical romance by Black Irish-American author Frank Yerby (1916–1991), writes back to Margaret Mitchell’s bestselling novel, "Gone with the Wind" (1936). Although Yerby and Mitchell were both raised in Georgia during segregation by mothers of Irish descent, their socially assigned racial identities created divergent approaches to representing the pre- and post-Civil War South in their respective novels.