Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Nella Larsen’s Etiquette Lesson: Small Talk, Racial Passing, and the Novel of Manners Novel: A Forum on Fiction Volume 51, Issue 1 (2018-05-01) pages 1-16 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-4357365 Matthew Krumholtz Department of English Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey This essay explores how novelists of the Harlem Renaissance deploy small talk to disrupt racial identification. Nella Larsen’s…