Article: PLENTY OF ROOM FOR US ALL? PARTICIPATION AND PREJUDICE IN CHARLES CHESNUTT'S DIALECT TALES.

It is often difficult to convince students who are reading Charles Chesnutt's dialect tales for the first time that his brief writing career, from about 1887 to 1905, coincided with the "nadir" of American race relations.(1) Chesnutt insisted in 1903 that "the rights of the Negroes are at a lower ebb than at any time during the thirty-five years of their freedom, and the race prejudice more intense and uncompromising," a comment borne out by the period's record number of lynchings and systematic denial of civil and political rights to blacks.(2) Yet Uncle Julius appears to be doing pretty well, students are likely to point out, and his narrative forays into the antebellum ...

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