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One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry ...was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community. This pioneering novel found a way beyond the bondage of Blackness in American life to a new meaning in truth and... read more
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More acutely than ever before Emma Lou began to feel that her luscious black complexion was somewhat of a liability, and that her marked color variation from the other people in her environment was a decided curse.
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- Wallace Thurman (Author)
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