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The house behind the cedars, by Charles W. Chesnutt

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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  • "Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Judith Jackson Fossett"
  • "Project Gutenberg presents The house behind the cedars"
  • "Project Gutenberg etext of The house behind the cedars"

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  • "Originally published in 1900, this groundbreaking novel by a distinguished African American author explores the Southern obsession with race. The drama of a brother and sister who "pass for white" during the dangerous days of Reconstruction, it offers realistic, unsentimental perspectives on the role of race in 19th-century American life. -- Publisher's 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."@en
  • "John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina in order to achieve the American dream."
  • "This story of two young African Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream reveals the moral and social problems faced by those who could pass for white."@en
  • "Although he appeared to most observers to be white, American author Charles Waddell Chestnutt had some African-American ancestry and thus was subjected to the limited opportunities, discrimination, and segregated living conditions that faced African-Americans in the United States throughout his life. An accomplished writer, Chestnutt created The House Behind the Cedars as a means of trying to depict the multidimensional complexity of race relations in the nineteenth-century American South. Recommended for fans of literary realism and social issue novels."@en
  • "Although he appeared to most observers to be white, American author Charles Waddell Chestnutt had some African-American ancestry and thus was subjected to the limited opportunities, discrimination, and segregated living conditions that faced African-Americans in the United States throughout his life. An accomplished writer, Chestnutt created The House Behind the Cedars as a means of trying to depict the multidimensional complexity of race relations in the nineteenth-century American ..."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Didactic fiction"@en
  • "Didactic fiction"
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  • "The house behind the cedars, by Charles W. Chesnutt"@en
  • "The house behind the cedars : [page proofs]"@en
  • "The house behind the cedars / The house behind the cedars"
  • "The House behind the Cedars"
  • "The House Behind the Cedars"@en
  • "The house behind the cedars : With an introd. by Darwin Turner"
  • "The house behind the cedars"
  • "The house behind the cedars"@en
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  • "House Behind The Cedars"
  • "House Behind the Cedars"@en
  • "House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt"@en

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