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In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings. (Introduction by James K. White)

Marrow of Tradition, The by Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 - 1932‪)‬ LibriVox

    • Arts

In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings. (Introduction by James K. White)

    Preface and Chapter I, At Break of Day

    Preface and Chapter I, At Break of Day

    • 19 min
    Chapter II, The Christening Party

    Chapter II, The Christening Party

    • 28 min
    Chapter III, The Editor At Work

    Chapter III, The Editor At Work

    • 22 min
    Chapter IV, Theodore Felix

    Chapter IV, Theodore Felix

    • 14 min
    Chapter V, A Journey Southward

    Chapter V, A Journey Southward

    • 28 min
    Chapter VI, Janet

    Chapter VI, Janet

    • 7 min

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