Jessie Redmon Fauset

Comedy American Style

Novel tracing colorism and racial identity through generations of American family

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Jessie Redmon Fauset

Jessie Redmon Fauset was literary editor of The Crisis and a prolific novelist who depicted the aspirations and social constraints of the Black middle class with realism and feminist insight. W.E.B. Du Bois called her one of the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance.

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