In Their Own Words

Goodbye, Mr. Nigger is a story about the first black professor at a predominantly white southern university. Excited at the opportunity, the author's hero is quickly faced with severe prejudice and disrespect. The problem, extending from fellow faculty members to the student body, only grows worse when the professor begins an affair with a white colleague.

The author himself enjoyed a long, distinguished career in academia, and thus knows whereof he speaks and writes. Readers, likewise, will have their heartstrings tugged and their innermost feelings strained as this tense, provocative story unfolds. The writing is crisp and raw, certainly not for the squeamish or overly sensitive. Yet that is the nature of racism, and thus provides the complementary backdrop for a book that resonates with feeling and, perhaps, controversy.