Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of the Literary Underground

Street Players (University of Chicago Press) focuses on the origins and growth of black pulp fiction publisher Holloway House from the late 1960s to 2000s. Nishikawa shows that while Holloway House eventually published black authors’ writing for black readers, its origins (and the origins of the genre overall) were in “blaxploitation” works meant for white readers.