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The Marrow of Tradition

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 - 1932)

In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings. (Introduction by James K. White)

Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, General Fiction, Historical Fiction

Language: English

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