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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Author : Lois Brown
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606569
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins written by Lois Brown and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South. In this critical biography, Lois Brown documents for the first time Hopkins's early family life and her ancestral connections to eighteenth-century New England, the African slave trade, and twentieth-century race activism in the North. Brown includes detailed descriptions of Hopkins's earliest known performances as a singer and actress; textual analysis of her major and minor literary works; information about her most influential mentors, colleagues, and professional affiliations; and details of her battles with Booker T. Washington, which ultimately led to her professional demise as a journalist. Richly grounded in archival sources, Brown's work offers a definitive study that clarifies a number of inconsistencies in earlier writing about Hopkins. Brown re-creates the life of a remarkable woman in the context of her times, revealing Hopkins as the descendant of a family comprising many distinguished individuals, an active participant and supporter of the arts, a woman of stature among professional peers and clubwomen, and a gracious and outspoken crusader for African American rights.

Contending Forces

Author : Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Contending Forces written by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Hopkins' 1900 melodramatic novel of Black bourgeois life is setin Boston in the 1890s. Contending Forcesexamines the political crosswinds still blowing after the demise of the Reconstruction and the terrible aftermath of slavery, even 35 years later.

Hagar’s Daughter

Author : Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770487913
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Hagar’s Daughter written by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hagar’s Daughter is Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s first serial novel, published in the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1901-02). The novel features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic revelations, and extraordinary plot twists, including a high-profile murder trial, an abduction plot, and a steady succession of surprises as the young black maid Venus Johnson assumes male clothing to solve a series of mysteries. Because Hagar’s Daughter demonstrates Hopkins’s keen sense of history, use of multiple literary genres, emphasis on gender roles, and political engagement, it provides the perfect introduction to the author and her era. In the appendices to this Broadview Edition, advertising, other writing by Hopkins and her contemporaries, and reviews situate the work within the popular literature and political culture of its time.

The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins

Author : Pauline E. Hopkins
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513287931
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins written by Pauline E. Hopkins and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins (2021) compiles several iconic works of fiction by a pioneering figure in American literature. Contending Forces was Hopkins’ first major publication as a leading African American author of the early twentieth century. Originally published in The Colored American Magazine, America’s first monthly periodical covering African American arts and culture, Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest is a groundbreaking novel that addresses themes of race and colonization from the perspective of a young girl of mixed descent. Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice is thought to be the first detective novel written by an African American author. Also included in this collection is “Talma Gordon,” an influential short story, and Of One Blood, Hopkins’ final novel. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest opens on an island in the middle of Lake Erie, where White Eagle—recently displaced after the dissolution of the Buffalo Creek reservation—has built a home for himself and his African American wife. Adopting her son Judah, White Eagle establishes a life for his family apart from the prejudices and violence of American life. Their daughter Winona grows to be proud of her rich cultural heritage. Set just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice takes place on the outskirts of Baltimore. When Hagar Sargeant returns home after four years of study at a seminary in the North, she meets Ellis Enson, an older gentleman and self-made man who resides at the stately Enson Hall. After a brief courtship, the pair are engaged to be married. As the wedding approaches, Hagar’s mother dies unexpectedly, leaving Hagar the family estate. When a man from the deep south arrives claiming the young woman was born a slave, their lives are changed forever. Contending Forces is the story of Charles Montfort, a planter from Bermuda who moves with his family and slaves to North Carolina. There, he plans to free his slaves, drawing condemnation from his neighbors and risking violent retaliation. When a rumor spreads regarding his wife’s ancestry, Montfort suspects Anson Pollack, a former friend, of planning to dispossess him. In these wide-ranging tales of race, class, and social convention, Hopkins proves herself as a true pioneer of American literature, a woman whose talent and principles afforded her the vision necessary for illuminating the injustices of life in a nation founded on slavery and genocide. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Winona : A tale of Negro life in the South and Southwest

Author : Pauline E. Hopkins
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Winona : A tale of Negro life in the South and Southwest written by Pauline E. Hopkins and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winona : A tale of Negro life in the South and Southwest" by Pauline E. Hopkins. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Talma Gordon

Author : Pauline E. Hopkins
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513298496
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Talma Gordon written by Pauline E. Hopkins and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talma Gordon (1900) is a short story by Pauline E. Hopkins. Recognized as the first African American mystery story, Talma Gordon was originally published in the October 1900 edition of The Colored American Magazine, America’s first monthly periodical covering African American arts and culture. Combining themes of racial identity and passing with a locked room mystery plot, Hopkins weaves a masterful tale of conspiracy, suspicion, and murder. “When the trial was called Jeannette sat beside Talma in the prisoner’s dock; both were arrayed in deepest mourning, Talma was pale and careworn, but seemed uplifted, spiritualized, as it were. [...] She had changed much too: hollow cheeks, tottering steps, eyes blazing with fever, all suggestive of rapid and premature decay.” When Puritan descendant Jonathan Gordon is discovered murdered under suspicious circumstances, the ensuing trial implicates his own daughter Talma. Despite being declared innocent, the townsfolk are determined to believe that Talma conspired to have her father killed after he discovered her mixed racial heritage. Freed from the prospect of imprisonment, Talma is left with only her sister’s protection against the anger and violence of her neighbors. With this thrilling tale of murder and racial tension, Hopkins proves herself as a true pioneer of American literature, a woman whose talent and principles afforded her the vision necessary for illuminating the injustices of life in a nation founded on slavery and genocide. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Pauline E. Hopkins’ Talma Gordon is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Of one blood: or, The hidden self

Author : Pauline E. Hopkins
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368941984
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Of one blood: or, The hidden self written by Pauline E. Hopkins and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

The Unruly Voice

Author : John Cullen Gruesser
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065545
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Unruly Voice written by John Cullen Gruesser and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A product of literary recovery at its very best. These carefully researched essays help us to see how gender marginalized black intellectuals who happened to be women." -- Claudia Tate, George Washington University The Unruly Voice explores the literary and journalistic career of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, a turn-of-the-century African American writer who was editor in chief of the Colored American Magazine, though it was not acknowledged on the masthead. Hopkins wrote short fiction, novels, nonfiction articles, and a play believed to be the first by an African American woman. Versatile and politically committed, she was fired when the magazine was bought by an ally of Booker T. Washington's who disliked her editorial stands and unconciliatory politics. Even though more than a thousand pages of Hopkins's works have been brought back into print, The Unruly Voice is the first book devoted exclusively to her writings and the significance she holds for readers today. Contributors explore the social, political, and historical conditions that informed her literary works.

Yours for Humanity

Author : JoAnn Pavletich
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820363154
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Yours for Humanity written by JoAnn Pavletich and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era. Her particular form of cultural activism was groundbreaking for its time and continues to influence and inspire authors and scholars today. This collection of essays constitutes a new phase in the full historical and literary recovery of her work. JoAnn Pavletich argues that considered from the broadest of perspectives, Hopkins’s life work occupies itself with the critique and creation of epistemologies that control racialized knowledge and experience. Whether in representations of a critical contemporary problem such as lynching, imperialism, or pan-African unity or in representations of African American women’s voices, Hopkins’s texts create new knowledge and new frames for understanding it. The essays in this collection engage this knowledge, articulating nuanced understandings of Hopkins’s era and her innovative writing practices, opening new doors for the next generation of Hopkins scholarship. With contributions from well-established Hopkins scholars such as John Gruesser (editor of The Unruly Voice) and Hanna Wallinger (author of Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography), the collection also includes important new scholars on Hopkins such as Elizabeth Cali, Edlie Wong, and others.

Of one blood: or, The hidden self

Author : Pauline E. Hopkins
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Of one blood: or, The hidden self written by Pauline E. Hopkins and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of one blood: or, The hidden self" by Pauline E. Hopkins. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream

Author : Alisha Knight
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 157233889X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream written by Alisha Knight and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was perhaps the most prolific black female writer of her time. Between 1900 and 1904, writing mainly for Colored American Magazine, she published four novels, at least seven short stories, and numerous articles that often addressed the injustices and challenges facing African Americans in post–Civil War America. In Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream, Alisha Knight provides the first full-length critical analysis of Hopkins’s work. Scholars have frequently situated Hopkins within the domestic, sentimental tradition of nineteenth-century women's writing, with some critics observing that aspects of her writing, particularly its emphasis on the self-made man, seem out of place within the domestic tradition. Knight argues that Hopkins used this often-dismissed theme to critique American society's ingrained racism and sexism. In her “Famous Men” and “Famous Women” series for Colored American Magazine, she constructed her own version of the success narrative by offering models of African American self-made men and women. Meanwhile, in her fiction, she depicted heroes who fail to achieve success or must leave the United States to do so. Hopkins risked and eventually lost her position at Colored American Magazine by challenging black male leaders, liberal white philanthropists, and white racists—and by conceiving a revolutionary treatment of the American Dream that placed her far ahead of her time. Hopkins is finally getting her due, and this clear-eyed analysis of her work will be a revelation to literary scholars, historians of African American history, and students of women’s studies. Alisha Knight is an associate professor of English and American Studies at Washington College. Her published articles include “Furnace Blasts for the Tuskegee Wizard: Revisiting Pauline E. Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Colored American Magazine,” which appeared in American Periodicals.

The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins

Author : Pauline Hopkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195063257
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins written by Pauline Hopkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of encouragement and opportunity. Not only a prolific writer for the journal, Pauline Hopkins also served as one of its powerful editorial forces. This volume of her magazine novels, which appeared serially in the journal between March 1901 and November 1903, reveals Hopkins' commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change. She weaves important political themes into the narrative formulas of nineteenth-century dime-store novels and story papers, which emphasize suspense, action, complex plotting, multiple and false identities, and the use of disguise. Offering both instruction and entertainment, Hopkins' novels also expose the limitations of popular American narrative forms when telling the stories of black characters.

Contending Forces

Author : Pauline E. Hopkins
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513293516
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Contending Forces written by Pauline E. Hopkins and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contending Forces (1900) is a novel by African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Originally published by the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company in Boston, Contending Forces is a groundbreaking novel that addresses themes of race and slavery through the lens of romance, faith, and betrayal. It was Hopkins’ first major publication as a leading African American author of the early twentieth century. Charles Montfort is a peculiar planter. Moving with his wife, Grace, and his sons from Bermuda to North Carolina, he announces his desire to slowly free his slaves. This angers the townspeople, who refuse to recognize the abilities of black people beyond base servitude. Anson Pollack, a jealous man, leverages his friendship with Montfort in order to gain his confidence while hatching a plan to kill him and steal his property. When a rumor regarding Grace’s racial heritage begins to spread, Montfort fears that an attempt will be made on his life. Soon enough, Anson and a posse of local men descend on the Montfort plantation, killing Charles and kidnapping his sons. While Jesse manages to escape to Boston, Charles Jr. is sold into slavery, changing their lives irrevocably. Contending Forces is a thrilling work of fiction from a true pioneer of American literature, a woman whose talent and principles afforded her the vision necessary for illuminating the injustices of life in a nation founded on slavery and genocide. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’ Contending Forces is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Hagar's Daughter

Author : Pauline E. Hopkins
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513285157
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Hagar's Daughter written by Pauline E. Hopkins and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice (1901-1902) is a novel by African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Originally published in The Colored American Magazine, America’s first monthly periodical covering African American arts and culture, Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice is a groundbreaking novel. Addressing themes of race and slavery through the lens of romance, Hopkins’ novel is thought to be the first detective novel written by an African American author. Set just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice takes place on the outskirts of Baltimore where, on neighboring estates, a man and woman fall in love. When Hagar Sargeant returns home after four years of study at a seminary in the North, she meets Ellis Enson, an older gentleman and self-made man who resides at the stately Enson Hall. After a brief courtship, the pair are engaged to be married. As the wedding approaches, Hagar’s mother—who has controlled the family estate since her husband’s death—dies unexpectedly, leaving Hagar the home and its accompanying grounds. Despite this tragic loss, Ellis and Hagar look forward to starting a family together—but when a man from the deep south arrives claiming the young woman was born a slave, their lives are changed forever. Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice is a thrilling work of romance and detective fiction from a true pioneer of American literature, a woman whose talent and principles afforded her the vision necessary for illuminating the injustices of life in a nation founded on slavery and genocide. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’ Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Contending Forces

Author : Pauline E. Hopkins
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1454951559
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Contending Forces written by Pauline E. Hopkins and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sappho Clark—beautiful, mysterious, Southern—arrives in Boston to earn her living as a stenographer. She lodges with the Smith family and immediately becomes a source of fascination to the them: Ma Smith is impressed by Sappho’s financial independence; Dora Smith admires Sappho’s quiet self-possession; and Will Smith, Dora’s brother, falls madly in love with Sappho. But as Sappho enters the Smiths’ community, it becomes clear that her beauty is a lure to bad actors, including someone who entertains dark suspicions about her past. . . A murder mystery, the story of a friendship, and a romance set in Boston’s thriving, politically active middle-class Black community, Contending Forces is an unjustly forgotten American classic.

Pauline E. Hopkins

Author : Hanna Wallinger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343455
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Pauline E. Hopkins written by Hanna Wallinger and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually unknown for the better part of the twentieth century, Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) is one of the most interesting rediscoveries of recent African American literary history. This is the first study devoted exclusively to Hopkins’s life and her influential career as an editor, political writer, social critic, pioneering playwright, biographer, and fiction writer. Hanna Wallinger’s discoveries break much new ground, especially regarding Hopkins’s relationship with such notable men and women as Booker T. Washington and Anna Julia Cooper, her position in Boston’s black women’s club movement, her work with the Boston-based Colored American Magazine, and her concepts of race, gender, and class. Drawing on recently discovered letters, Wallinger sheds new light on the relationship between Hopkins and Booker T. Washington, particularly the acrimony surrounding Hopkins’s departure from the Colored American Magazine. She discusses Hopkins’s pseudonymous writings in addition to those written under the known alias Sarah A. Allen. Wallinger interprets Hopkins’s play Peculiar Sam, her now famous novels (Contending Forces, Hagar’s Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood), and the short stories, which have so far received little critical attention. This study also contains the little-known but important text A Primer of Facts. Republished here for the first time, it establishes Hopkins as an early advocate of black nationalism and one of the few women writers who joined this discourse. Hopkins, writes Wallinger, “was on the scene when race consciousness was being defined.” This important new study reveals her role at the center of crucial debates about the cultural politics of magazine editing, radical activism, and the early feminist movement.

The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins

Author : Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195052480
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins written by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of encouragement and opportunity. Not only a prolific writer for the journal, Pauline Hopkins also served as one of its powerful editorial forces. This volume of her magazine novels, which appeared serially in the journal between March 1901 and November 1903, reveals Hopkins' commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change. She weaves important political themes into the narrative formulas of nineteenth-century dime-store novels and story papers, which emphasize suspense, action, complex plotting, multiple and false identities, and the use of disguise. Offering both instruction and entertainment, Hopkins' novels also expose the limitations of popular American narrative forms when telling the stories of black characters"--Publisher's description.