From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of U.
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In Afro--Realisms and the Romances of Race , Melissa Daniels--Rauterkus uncovers how black and white writers experimented with innovative narrative strategies to revise static and stereotypical views of black identity and experience. race relations, the African American Novel provided a powerful counternarrative to dominant and pejorative ideas about blackness.
From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of U.
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