What a wonderful and interesting book. Chesnutt was an African American author who wrote around the turn of the 20th century. Who knew there were such people a century ago? Oops, my whiteness is showing again. Anyway, this book is set in the south just after the Civil War. The primary problem it add...
This was a difficult book to read because it is such an honest depiction of racial inequality during the reconstruction of the south after the civil war. But I think it was my favorite among the books I've read by Chesnutt, for that very honesty.
I do like this series. Each book last half of a year in Alice's life. This, the second installment of her Junior year, did not disappoint. I like the characters, the situations mostly ring true, and the messages are not delivered via baseball bats. There are perhaps no surprises, but there's somethi...
Chesnutt was America's first successful black novelist. This book was written in 1901, and is based on an actual race riot that broke out in North Carolina a few years earlier. It's not nonfiction; it's a dramatization based on events leading up to and during the riot.Really good book. Chesnutt's st...
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