526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
The History of Literature
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Chestnut's View on Race Prejudice
"All maria white or woman than me will have a great ball to celebrate it and here we go on the way onward and upward getting wider make sure that the people who come to this ball are of the right complexion," he says. "Hopefully fingers crossed someday we will be someday i and and my fellow light and getting lighter black-skinned folks will reach that promised land that's the promised land" He wants acceptance by white people absorption into their society, but they would welcome him back in their company if he married mr dixon. The story is based on an interview with former President George H.W. Bush during his first White House term.
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