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(0)Suzanne Whitmore Jones
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"Employing a dynamic model of the relationship between text and context, Suzanne W. Jones shows how more than thirty relevant writers - including Madison Smartt Bell, Larry Brown, Bebe Moore Campbell, Thulani Davis, Ellen Douglas, Ernest Gaines, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Reynolds Price, Alice Walker, and Tom Wolfe - illuminate the complexities of the color line and the problems in defining racial identity today. While an earlier generation...
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The complex truth about the color line--its destructive effects, painful legacy, clandestine crossings, possible erasure--is revealed more often in private than in public and has sometimes been visited more easily by novelists than historians. In this tradition, Crossing the Color Line, a powerful collection of nineteen contemporary stories, speaks the unspoken, explores the hidden, and voices both fear and hope about relationships between blacks...