The House Behind the Cedars

Name: The House Behind the Cedars
Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Story of light-skinned Black woman passing as white and discovering her heritage

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Charles Waddell Chesnutt was the first major African American fiction writer to achieve broad critical recognition, using the trickster folk tale tradition and realist social fiction to anatomize American racial injustice. The Marrow of Tradition is his masterwork.

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