The house behind the cedars / by Charles W. Chesnutt.

Author/creator Chesnutt, Charles W.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900.
Description294 pages ; 20 cm
Subjects
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Passing (Identity)--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Fiction.
Racism--Fiction.
Racism against Black people-- Fiction.
American fiction--19th century.
Southern States--Fiction.

Abstract Originally published in 1900, this groundbreaking novel by a distinguished African American author explores the Southern obsession with race. The drama of a brother and sister who "pass for white" during the dangerous days of Reconstruction, it offers realistic, unsentimental perspectives on the role of race in 19th-century American life. -- Publisher's description
LCCN 00006369