The House Behind the Cedars

Description

An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt’s story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream.

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Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Charles W. Chesnutt,Donald B. Gibson (Introduction by)
Published: 04/01/1993
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780140186857
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 0.59″ H x 7.82″ L x 5.08″ W

About the Author
Judith Jackson Fossett, associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, is the author of Illuminated Darkness: Slavery and Its Shadows in Nineteenth-Century America and the editor of Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century.