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The House Behind the Cedars Spiral-Bound | 1993-04-01

Charles W. Chesnutt Donald B. Gibson (Introduction by)

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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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Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0140186859
Item Weight: 0.4 lbs
Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.7 inches
"A pioneering work about racial passing."
--Werner Sollors, Harvard University
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.