Marrow of Tradition
Author: first_name: Charles Waddell
last_name: Chesnutt
Language: English
Year: 1901

In <i>The Marrow of Tradition</i>, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings. (Introduction by James K. White)