QUESTION:
How are the topics of class and/or respectability evident or implicit in one or more of the texts you have studied?
TEXTS TO CHOOSE FROM:
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave (1845)
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Charles Chestnutt, trickster stories
DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and the songs of the slaves
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912, Penguin)
Poets and critics of the Harlem Renaissance: Blues to the sonnet
Jean Toomer, Cane (1923, Norton)
Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
