Subjects: Racially mixed people -- Fiction, Psychological fiction, Didactic fiction, African Americans -- Fiction, African American women -- Fiction, PS, Passing (Identity) -- Fiction, Racism -- Fiction, Domestic fiction, Southern States -- Fiction, I
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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.
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