Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Un-making of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America by Korey Garibaldi (review).

This text focuses on Korey Garibaldi's book *Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Un-making of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America*, which examines the history of interracial literary collaborations between Black and white writers, editors, and publishers in early to mid-twentieth-century America. Garibaldi highlights how these collaborations challenged racist publishing norms but ultimately faltered due to external white supremacist pressures and internal conflicts. The book explores key moments such as the marginalization of Black authors like Frank Yerby and William Stanley Braithwaite, the contested terrain of children's literature dominated by white women publishers, and postwar debates over the definition and scope of Black writing. Through detailed case studies and archival materials, the work reveals the complexities and erasures within American literary culture regarding race and interracial cooperation.