Jessie Redmon Fauset

• Dec-1999
• / Historical
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A young woman hides her African American identity in this semiautobiographical novel by a literary “force to be reckoned with” of the Harlem Renaissance (Shonda Rhimes).   A young girl, Angela Murray lives in Philadelphia’s black community...

• Nov-2009
• / General Fiction
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This ironically titled tale by an influential figure in African-American literature explores the tragic effects of color prejudice and self-hatred. Jessie Redmon Fauset's 1933 novel paints a haunting portrait of internalized racism with its depiction...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction
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Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a commo...

• Nov-2017
• / General Fiction
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A classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance: Jessie Redmon Fauset's moving, delicately observed portrait of life along the color lineJessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun (1928) brilliantly exemplifies the cultural, social, and creative ferment of the Harl...

• Feb-2020
• / General Fiction
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A rediscovered classic about how racism and sexism tests the spirit, ambition, and character of three children growing up in Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem, from the literary editor of The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP Set in early twent...