"You think like you white": Questioning Race and Racial Community through the Lens of Middle-Class Desire(s).
Examines novels "Sarah Phillips," by Andrea Lee, "Beloved," by Toni Morrison and "Devil in a Blue Dress," by Walter Mosley in order to identify the contradictory impulses that propel understandings of race. Middle-class aspirations used in the novels; Analysis of the necessity and perils of Afro-Am...
| Publicado en: | Novel: A Forum on Fiction Vol. 35; no. 2/3; pp. 211 - 231 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Duke University Press
Spring/Summer2002
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| Sumario: | Examines novels "Sarah Phillips," by Andrea Lee, "Beloved," by Toni Morrison and "Devil in a Blue Dress," by Walter Mosley in order to identify the contradictory impulses that propel understandings of race. Middle-class aspirations used in the novels; Analysis of the necessity and perils of Afro-American racial identity; Summary of the meanings of race and class; Plot of "Sarah Phillips"; Problems with perceived intra-racial class hierarchies. |
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