First person narrative by white-looking black author who chronicles lives of white looking black fraternal twins Chloe/Solomon Bechet who escape from New Orlean

Skin color and skin tone has historically played a significant role in determining the life chances of African Americans and other people of color. It has also

Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective is a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity, written from multiple disciplinary appro

Applies a psychoanalytic approach to analyze the black and white characters and authors of five plays by African-American women.

Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Th