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Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The Color of Literacy: Race, Self, and the Public Ethos 8 2. From Reading Race to Race as a Way of Reading 25 3. Chesnutt’s Reconstruction of Race and Dialect 46 4. Of Color and Culture: Du Bois’s Evolving Perspectives on Race 62 5. “Reading My Words but Not My Mind”: Hurston’s Ironic Voice 75 6. The Rhetoric of Black Voice: Implications for Composition Pedagogy 92 Notes 109 Works Cited and Consulted 115 Index 123 ...

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