Week 9:
Thurman, The Blacker the Berry, Continued:
Read Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry, pp. 51-100.
Week 10:
Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry, Continued, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Gwendolyn Bennett
Read
- Wallace Thurman’s "The Blacker the Berry," pp. 101-146
- Double-Take, Richard Bruce Nugent’s “Smoke, Lilies, and Jade.”
- Gwendolyn Bennett’s “Wedding Day” and “Token.”
Week 11
Racial Passing: Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen
Read
- Charles Chesnutt “The Wife of His Youth” [Online Handout/Link]
- Nella Larsen "Passing", Part I.
Week 12
Larsen, Passing, Continued:
Read
Nella Larsen’s Passing, Parts II and III.