Contending Forces

Name: Contending Forces
Author: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Novel exploring African American identity, protest, and community organization

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Pauline Hopkins was a Boston novelist and editor of The Colored American Magazine who wrote ambitious serialized fiction celebrating Black history and African American dignity. Contending Forces is her most substantial novel.

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