Introduction: The Cleveland Challenge
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—- and Dean McWilliams The Quarry. Princeton University Press, 1999.
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Chapter One: “Free” Negroes
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Chapter Two: Educating the African in the New World
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Chapter Three: The Legacy of Education
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Chesnutt, Helen M. Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Pioneer of the Color Line. University of North Carolina Press, 1952.
Fairclough, Adam. A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South. Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Chapter Four: Citizen Chesnutt
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Keller, Frances Richardson. An American Crusade: The Life of Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Brigham Young University Press, 1978.
Kusmer, Kenneth L. A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930. University of Illinois Press, 1976.
Chapter Five: Black Nationalist Discourse and the Mixed-Race Experience
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Part Two: Teaching the Northern Stories
Chesnutt, Charles W. and Charles Duncan. The Northern Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt. Ohio University Press, 2004.
—- and Richard H. Brodhead. The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt. Duke University Press Books, 1993.
Keane, Catherine. “Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire.” A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern, edited by Rueben Quintero, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 31-51.
Part Three: Teaching The Quarry in the 21st Century
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