The marrow of tradition
By: Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited by Nancy Bentley and Sandra Gunning.
Contributors: Bentley, Nancy, 1961-; Gunning, Sandra.
Series: Bedford cultural editions
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
Subjects: Racially mixed people -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Riots -- Fiction; Wilmington (N.C.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-465).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE; title: The Marrow of Tradition: The Complete Text 1; title: Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background 3; title: Chronology of Chesnutt's Life and Times 27; title: The Marrow of Tradition [1901 Houghton Mifflin Edition] 41; title: PART TWO; title: The Marrow of Tradition: Cultural Contexts 247; title: 1. Caste, Race, and Gender after Reconstruction 249; title: Philip A. Bruce, from The Plantation Negro as a Freeman 255; title: Thomas E. Watson, from The Negro Question in the South 262; title: William Dean Howells, from An Imperative Duty 269; title: Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address 274; title: Charles W. Chesnutt, from The Future American 278; title: W. E. B. Du Bois, from The Conservation of Races 288; title: Theodore Roosevelt, from Birth Reform, from the Positive, Not the Negative, Side 299; title: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Women and Economics 304; title: Fannie Barrier Williams, from The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women 313; title: Roscoe Conkling Bruce, from Service by the Educated Negro 322; title: 2. Law and Lawlessness 331; title: Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 338; title: George Washington Cable, from The Freedman's Case in Equity 340; title: Justice Henry Billings Brown and Justice John Marshall Harlan, from Plessy v. Ferguson 353; title: Suffrage and Eligibility to Office, Article VI, the North Carolina State Constitution 362; title: Ida B. Wells, from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases 364; title: Turn-of-the-Century Newspaper Reports on Lynching 377; title: Vicksburg Evening Post, Lynched Negro and Wife First Mutilated 378; title: Atlanta Constitution, Victim's Family Begs to See Negro Burned 381; title: New York Herald, Negro Tortured by Illinois Mob 382; title: Jane Addams, from Respect for Law 383; title: Ray Stannard Baker, from A Race Riot, and After 385; title: George H. White, from Speech before the U.S. House of Representatives 394; title: 3. The Wilmington Riot 398; title: Alexander Manly, Editorial 405; title: Rebecca Latimer Felton, Letter to the Atlanta Constitution 409; title: Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia, from White Man's Declaration of Independence 411; title: Letter to William McKinley 414; title: Jane Murphy Cronly, from An Account of the Race Riot in Wilmington, N.C. 417; title: 4. Segregation as Culture: Etiquette, Spectacle, and Fiction 422; title: Raleigh News and Observer, Is a Race Clash Unavoidable? 429; title: Walter G. Cooper, from The Cotton States and International; title: Exposition Program 432; title: Tom Fletcher, from 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business 435; title: Frances Benjamin Johnston, from The Hampton Album 441; title: Charles Chesnutt, Literary Memoranda 443; title: Charles Chesnutt, Po' Sandy 444; title: William Dean Howells, from A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction 454.