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Charles W. Chesnutt and the Engendering of a Post-Reconstruction Multiracial Politics

Once a promising fiction writer and would-be spokesman for African-Americans, Charles W. Chesnutt promoted a form of multiracialism but is largely forgotten today. Kirin Wachter-Grene traces the development of Chesnutt's ideas about the amalgamation of races and their afterlife in the 21st century.

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Charles W. Chesnutt and the Engendering of a Post-Reconstruction Multiracial Politics
Once a promising fiction writer and would-be spokesman for African-Americans, Charles W. Chesnutt promoted a form of multiracialism but is largely forgotten today. Kirin Wachter-Grene traces the development of Chesnutt's ideas about the amalgamation of races and their afterlife in the 21st century.