The Minority Presence in American Literature, 1600-1900
Subtitle: A Reader and Course Guide (Morgan State Series in Afro-American Studies)
Publisher: Howard Univ Pr
Published: November 1984
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780882581002
Subjects: Literary collections; Literature: Classics; Minorities; American literature; United States
First sentence: In "Waiting at the Station," from Sketches and Travels in London, written more than a hundred years ago about class distinctions in England, William Makepeace Thackeray dramatized the conscience-salving rationalizations that the dominant group in a society uses in dismissing its subordinates as essentially alien and beyond the pale: We are amongst a number of people waiting for the Blackwell train at the Fenchurch Street Station.