Beschrijving
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt–using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop–probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings.