Description
How are the topics of class and/or respectability evident or implicit in one or more of the texts you have studied?
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave (1845)
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Charles Chestnutt, trickster stories
DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and the songs of the slaves
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912, Penguin)
Poets and critics of the Harlem Renaissance: Blues to the sonnet
Jean Toomer, Cane (1923, Norton)
Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
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