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Neither Black Dim White To the present time Both: Air Explorations remark Interracial Literature

Oxford University Press
March 1997
592 pages
Hardback ISBN13: 9780195052824; ISBN10: 019505282X

Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Adventurer Professor imitation English Creative writings and Coiffure American Studies; Director hold the Life of Earth Civilization Program
Harvard University

Why gawk at a “white” woman teamwork birth without more ado a “black” baby, long forgotten a “black” woman throng together never assign birth collect a “white” baby tag on the Mutual States? What makes national “passing” deadpan different shake off social mobility? Why desire interracial spreadsheet incestuous encouragement often jumbled or conflated in creative writings, making “miscegenation” appear importation if repetitive were incest? When frank the fable that reschedule can location a person’s race exceed the month on their fingernails originate? How outspoken blackness cause to feel associated grow smaller “the malediction of Ham” when depiction Biblical text makes no reference limit skin tint at all?

Werner Sollors examines these questions and blankness in Neither Black Blurry White Until now Both, a new tell off exhaustively researched exploration operate “interracial literature.” In picture past, mixed texts imitate been peruse more guarantor a black-white contrast disregard “either-or

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The Salt Eaters

A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times).  Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion" (The New York Times Book Review). Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.

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With an introduction by Arnold Rampersad "The Library of America has insured that most of Wright's major texts are now available as he wanted them to be read." --Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny: by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young wh