Bad Feelings, White Feelings: Miscegenation Law, Sentiment, and the Violence of Custom in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
Law, Culture and the Humanities
Published online on May 23, 2026
Abstract
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This article considers how the unequal mobilization of white feelings limited political progress toward racial equity followingPlessy v. Ferguson. Discussing The Marrow of Tradition, this essay examines how Charles Chesnutt’s realist novel exposes the ...
This article considers how the unequal mobilization of white feelings limited political progress toward racial equity followingPlessy v. Ferguson. Discussing The Marrow of Tradition, this essay examines how Charles Chesnutt’s realist novel exposes the ...