Whitewashed exteriors: Mark Twain's imitation whites

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is perhaps the supreme demonstration of Mark Twain's belief in the power of dominan culture to shape the consciousness of even its marginalized subjects. For Twain, the codes by which the dominant culture lives are inextricably linked to the ideologies of race, even where his white protagonists are not slave-owners, or when no non-white characters are present.

International Affairs, Racial Oppression, Works, Race discrimination, Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Novel)

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The danger of sympathy: Edgar Allan Poe's 'Hop-Frog' and the abolitionist rhetoric of pathos

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Edgar Allen Poe shows his fear of slaves and disdain for abolitionists in his short story 'Hop-Frog.' The enslaved and disfigured dwarf who is mistreated by his master the king invokes the readers sympathy in a way similar to abolitionist fiction. But Hop-Frog's horrible revenge is presented as a warning against such sympathy.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Abolitionists, Poe, Edgar Allan, Revenge, Hop-Frog (Short fiction)

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Thomas Satterwhite Noble's Mulattos: from barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper

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The paintings of Thomas Satterwhite Noble based on the historical events of slavery in America are analyzed in the article. His paintings depicted mulattos or mixed-race women slaves and have given rise to transformational sociopolitical ideas about biracial women in post-emancipation America.

Painting, American, American painting, Painters, American, American painters, Mulattoes, Noble, Thomas Satterwhite

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