The Marrow of Tradition, Hardcover - Charles W. Chesnutt

Reducere. The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. Based on the Wilm...

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Contributor(s): Author: Charles W. ChesnuttIntroduction by: Eric J. SundquistNotes by: Eric J. SundquistThis novel is based on a historically accur...

Reducere. The House Behind the Cedars (1900) is African-American writer Charles Chesnutt's debut novel. Inspired by his own experience as a Black man capable...

Reducere. The House Behind the Cedars (1900) is African American writer Charles Chesnutt's debut novel. Inspired by his own experience as a Black man capable...

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Reducere. The Conjure Woman (1899) is a collection of stories by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. "The Goophered Gra...

Reducere. An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt's story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 th...

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Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. The Bais Yaakov schools she founded in interwar Poland had an un...

Reducere. Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addressed the complex issues of racial and social identi...

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Macroeconomic Analysis in the Classical Tradition explains how the influence of Keynes's macroeconomics, including his changed definitions of some ...

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When the mass suicides are remembered, it is usually comically or instructively: "Don't drink the Kool-Aid, " as the majority of those who died tha...

Tales of individual courage from men who defied comfort and custom.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): James W. MillerIllustratio...

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Publisher: De GruyterAuthor(s): W. Charles SawyerIllustration(s): 18 Illustrations, black and white; 44 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 262...

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