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The Marrow of Tradition
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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)
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African-American author known for his novels centering on race relations in the American South.
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