The Marrow of Tradition

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Marrow of Tradition, by Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Read by James K. White. In The Marrow of Tradition , Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings. (Introduction by James K. White) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B Part 1 (136MB) Download M4B Part 2 (137MB)

Directors & creators

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Subjects

LibriVox; audiobook; fiction; historical fiction; segregation; racism; post-Civil War South; Post-Civil War Southern literature; Afro-American fiction; color line; racial injustice; racial slaughter; racial justice; Wilmington, NC; Wilmington race riot of 1898

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