...Through that window we can look not just at story lines, themes, and plots but at social conditions. Race and ethnic relations, in particular, are given new illumination in some of the greater literary works. Such is the case with such works as W.E. Dubois Souls of Black Folks. Pearson (PG)...
...figures in black history, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass both sought to bring about cultural, social and gender change to an otherwise intolerant white society. Their literary efforts, forever bound and protected by time, have chronicled the struggles inherent to black Americans since...