The marrow of tradition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

vi, 329 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : AMS Press, [1972]

Summary:

A landmark in the history of African-American fiction, this gripping 1901 novel unfolds against the backdrop of the post-Reconstruction South, climaxing in a race riot based on an actual 1898 incident.

Contents:

Part 1 The Marrow of Tradition: The Complete Text

Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background

Chronology of Chesnutt's Life and Times

A Note on the Text

The Marrow of Tradition [1901 Houghton Mifflin edition]

Part 2 The Marrow of Tradition: Cultural Contexts

1 Caste, Race and Gender After Reconstruction from The Platinum Negro as a Freeman / Philip Bruce Bruce, Philip

"The Negro Question in the South" / Tom Watson Watson, Tom

An Imperative Duty / William Dean Howells Howells, William Dean

"Atlanta Exposition Speech" from Up from Slavery / Booker T. Washington Washington, Booker T.

"The Future American" / Charles W. Chesnutt Chesnutt, Charles W.

"The Conservation of Race" / W. E. B. DuBois DuBois, W. E. B.

"Birth Reform, from the Positive, not the Negative Side" / Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt, Theodore

Women and Economics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

"The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Woman" / Fannie Barrier Williams Williams, Fannie Barrier

"Service by the Educated Negro" / Roscoe Conklin Bruce Bruce, Roscoe Conklin

2 Law and Lawlessness

Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution

"The Freedman's Case in Equity" / George Washington Cable Cable, George Washington

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): excerpts from brief by Albion Tourgee, majority opinion by Justice Henry Billings Brown, and the dissenting opinion by Justice John Marshall Harlan

"Suffrage and Eligibility to Office," Article VI, amendment to the North Carolina State Constitution

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases / Ida B. Wells Wells, Ida B.

"Lynched Negro and Wife First Mutilated," Vicksburg (Mississippi) Evening Post February 8, 1904

"Victim's Family Begs to See Negro Burned," Atlanta Constitution October 2, 1905

"Belleville is Complacent Over Horrible Lynching,: New York Herald June 9, 1903

"Respect for Law," Independent / Jane Addams Addams, Jane

"A Race Riot and After," Following the Color Line / Ray Stannard Baker Baker, Ray Stannard

A speech before the United States House of Representatives, February 23, 1900 / George H. White White, George H.

3 The Wilmington Riot

Editorial printed in Literary Digest, 1898 / Alexander Manly Manly, Alexander

Speech reported in The Wilmington Star / Rebecca Latimer Fulton Fulton, Rebecca Latimer

From the "White Man's Declaration of Independence" (or, Wilmington Declaration of Independence), from Appleton's Cyclopaedia

Anonymous letter to William McKinley, 13 November 1898

Letter to Walter Hines Page, 1898 / Charles Chesnutt Chesnutt, Charles

"An Account of the Race Riot in Wilmington, N.C." / Jane Cronly Cronly, Jane

4 Segregation as Culture: Etiquette, Spectacle, and Fiction

Wilmington Messenger article, rpt in Raleigh New and Observer, 8 September 1899

Photograph of "Old Plantation" Midway booth at the 1896 Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia

From The Cotton States and International Exposition program

100 Years of the Negro in Show Business / Tom Fletcher Fletcher, Tom

"Old" and "New" Negro photographs juxtaposed, from Frances Benjamin Johnston's The Hampton album

Literary Memoranda / Charles Chesnutt Chesnutt, Charles

"Po' Sandy" / Charles Chesnutt Chesnutt, Charles

From The Leopard's Spots / Thomas Dixon Dixon, Thomas

From "A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction" North American Review / Williams Dean Howells Howells, Williams Dean.

Notes:

Reprint of the 1901 ed.

ISBN:

0404000142

OCLC:

278454