526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
The History of Literature
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The Blue Veins Club
The blue veins club is light skinned blacks and this guy mr. rider is the head of it. Charles chestnut tells us right from the start look at what this club is doing first they say of course that race has nothing to do with it It's based on character and culture but everyone on the outside says oh for god's sake stop pretending we're going to call it the blue veins club you're not letting anyone in who's who's not light enough to have the blue veins showing.
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