Stranger and Alone

by J. Saunders Redding, Pancho Savery (Editor)

Set in the South's segregated school system in the 1920s and 1930s, this powerful novel about a multiracial boy is a riveting account of the institutionalization of African-American cynicism and self-hatred in the pre-civil rights era.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1950

About the author

A graduate of Brown University, James Thomas Saunders Redding was an academic and historian who taught at Hampton Institute, Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., and Morehouse College in Atlanta before finishing his career at Cornell University.