Carla Kaplan

Books

  • Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
    • November 2025
    • HarperCollins
    • 0060882387
    • 576 pages
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  • Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
    • September 2013
    • HarperCollins
    • 0060882387
    • 505 pages, incl. photos
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  • Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
    • December 2003
    • Anchor Books
    • 0385490368
    • 912 pages
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  • The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms
    • December 1996
    • Oxford University Press
    • 019509915X
    • 256 pages
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Edited works

Passing

  • Nella Larsen, author
  • W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.
  • 2007
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States

  • Zora Neale Hurston, author
  • Harper Perennial
  • 2002
  • Buy online

Dark Symphony and Other Works (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940)

  • Elizabeth Laura Adams, author
  • G. K. Hall
  • 1996
  • Buy online

Selected features

  • “What the 1920s Tell Us About Dolezal and Racial Illogic”
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Jun 19, 2015
  • Read online
  • “We’ve created excuses for racial violence.”
  • The Boston Globe “Letters to the Editor”
  • Jul 16, 2013
  • Read online (PDF)
  • “The Lives of Others: Lois Gordon’s new biography of Nancy Cunard brings the legendary heiress and activist back to life.”
  • The Nation
  • Aug 13, 2007
  • Read online at TheNation.com