Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination poetry this beautiful journal measures 8

this beautiful journal measures 8

000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937

For most of the twentieth century

"out of one thing only--one's own experience

" --National Book Review

Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination poetry this beautiful journal measures 8What is "race"? A biological fact, a social construction, or an assumed disguise? In Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination, acclaimed novelist and critic Adam Lively offers a brilliant exploration of how the concept of blackness has evolved in Western thought and literature, and how changing notions of racial identity helped to shape modern consciousness. Lively traces ideas of racial difference to their earliest expressions in European culture,