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Passing And Its Prepositions, Or, Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction In Four Parts, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Dec 2006

Passing And Its Prepositions, Or, Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction In Four Parts, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Recovered Autobiographies And The Marketplace: Our Nig's Generic Genealogies And Harriet Wilson's Entrepreneurial Enterprise, P. Gabrielle Foreman Dec 2006

Recovered Autobiographies And The Marketplace: Our Nig's Generic Genealogies And Harriet Wilson's Entrepreneurial Enterprise, P. Gabrielle Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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The Christian Recorder, Broken Families And Educated Nations: Julia Collins' Civil War Novel The Curse Of Caste, P. Gabrielle Foreman Dec 2005

The Christian Recorder, Broken Families And Educated Nations: Julia Collins' Civil War Novel The Curse Of Caste, P. Gabrielle Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

This essay views Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (1865) through the racialized lens of Civil War’s promise and trauma. At first glance, the author’s narrative choices—her antebellum frame, her principal character’s racial indeterminacy and domestic concerns, even the overtly racialized advice she dispenses in the essays she publishes in the important Black paper, the Christian Recorder—seem distractingly distanced from the immediacy of the unfolding national conflict. Yet, readers can plot Collins’s story on the temporal and activist axes that she so explicitly engages by publishing in the Recorder, a paper that printed editorials …

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Who’S Your Mama?: ‘White’ Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography And Anti-Passing Narratives Of Slavery And Freedom, P. Foreman Dec 2001

Who’S Your Mama?: ‘White’ Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography And Anti-Passing Narratives Of Slavery And Freedom, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Sentimental Abolition In Douglass’S Decade: Revision, Erotic Conversion, And Politics Of Witnessing In Frederick Douglass's "Heroic Slave" And My Bondage And My Freedom, P. Foreman Dec 1998

Sentimental Abolition In Douglass’S Decade: Revision, Erotic Conversion, And Politics Of Witnessing In Frederick Douglass's "Heroic Slave" And My Bondage And My Freedom, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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