The Marrow of TraditionMacmillan, 2002 M03 27 - 465 pages This teaching edition of Charles W. Chesnutt’s 1901 novel about racial conflict in a Southern town features an extensive selection of materials that place the work in its historical context. Organized thematically, these materials explore caste, gender, and race after Reconstruction; postbellum laws and lynching; the 1898 Wilmington riot upon which the narrative is based; and the fin de siecle culture of segregation. The thematic sections are rich with documents such as letters, photographs, editorials, speeches, legal decisions, journalism, and essays from leading periodicals of the era. The writers represented include such well-known figures as W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as fascinating, half-forgotten characters like the black newspaper editor Alexander Manly and the white supremacist Thomas Dixon. The editors’ introductions and selection headnotes provide additional background for understanding the mythology of race and Chesnutt’s penetrating examination of its mechanisms and consequences. |
Contents
Cultural and Historical Background | 3 |
Chronology of Chesnutts Life and Times | 27 |
The Marrow of Tradition 1901 Houghton | 41 |
CHAPTER PAGE I AT BREAK OF DAY | 44 |
THE CHRISTENING PARTY | 50 |
THE EDITOR AT WORK | 60 |
THEODORE FELIX | 68 |
A JOURNEY SOUTHWARD | 73 |
Two SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN | 167 |
THE HONOR OF A FAMILY | 172 |
THE DISCOMFORT OF ELLIS | 176 |
THE VAGARIES OF THE HIGHER LAW | 179 |
IN SEASON AND OUT | 188 |
MUTTERINGS OF THE STORM | 196 |
THE MISSING PAPERS | 200 |
THE SHADOW OF a Dream | 209 |
JANET | 83 |
THE OPERATION | 86 |
THE CAMPAIGN DRAGS | 93 |
A WHITE MANS NIGGER | 96 |
PART | 97 |
DELAMERE PLAYS A TRUMP | 102 |
THE BABY AND THE BIRD | 108 |
ANOTHER SOUTHERN PRODUCT | 112 |
THE CAKEWALK | 116 |
THE MAUNDERINGS Of Old Mrs OCHILTREE | 120 |
MRS CARTERET SEEKS AN EXPLANATION | 126 |
ELLIS TAKES A TRICK | 130 |
THE SOCIAL ASPIRATIONS OF CAPTAIN MCBANE | 139 |
SANDY SEES HIS OWN HANT | 147 |
A MIDNIGHT WALK | 150 |
A SHOCKING CRIME | 151 |
THE NECESSITY OF AN EXAMPLE | 155 |
How NOT TO PREVENT A LYNCHING | 158 |
BELLEVIEW | 164 |
THE STORM BREAKS | 213 |
INTO THE LIONS JAWS | 219 |
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW | 224 |
MINE Enemy O Mine Enemy | 227 |
FIAT JUSTITIA | 235 |
THE SISTERS | 242 |
Caste Race and Gender after Reconstruction | 249 |
Law and Lawlessness | 331 |
Lynch Law in | 364 |
TurnoftheCentury Newspaper Reports on Lynching | 377 |
Jane Addams from Respect for Law | 383 |
The Wilmington Riot | 398 |
Etiquette Spectacle | 422 |
Raleigh News and Observer Is a Race Clash | 429 |
Tom Fletcher from 100 Years of the Negro | 435 |
Frances Benjamin Johnston from The Hampton Album | 441 |
William Dean Howells from A Psychological CounterCurrent | 454 |
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