Title: Charles W. Chesnutt
Description: The 77 works included in this volume comprise all of Chesnutt's known works of nonfiction, 38 of which are reprinted here for the first time. They reveal an ardent and often outraged spokesman for the African American whose militancy increased to such a degree that, by 1903, he had more in common with W. E. B. Du Bois than Booker T. Washington.

He was, however, a lifelong integrationist and even an advocate of "race amalgamation," seeing interracial marriage as the ultimate means of solving "the Negro Problem," as it was termed at the end of the century. That he championed the African American during the Jim Crow era while opposing Black Nationalism and other "race pride" movements attests to the way Chesnutt defined himself as a controversial figure, in his time and ours.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, Race relations, Intellectual life, Civil rights, History and criticism, American literature, African American authors, Social conditions, African Americans, African americans, civil rights, African americans, social conditions, United states, race relations, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Noirs américains, Droits, Conditions sociales, Relations raciales, LITERARY COLLECTIONS, Essays, Afro-American authors
Places: United States