The House Behind the Cedars

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John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina in order to achieve the American dream.

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A pioneering work about racial passing.
Werner Sollors, Harvard University

Author Bio

Judith Jackson Fossett, associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, is the author of Illuminated Darkness- Slavery and Its Shadows in Nineteenth-Century America and the editor of Race Consciousness- African-American Studies for the New Century.