A few classroom moments remain with me from more than 16 years of teaching literature. One proved memorable not because it was singular but because it was typical. We were discussing “Iola Leroy,” an 1892 novel by Frances E. W. Harper — one of the first novels published by an African American woman — whose female protagonist is mixed-race but looks white.
A few classroom moments remain with me from more than 16 years of teaching literature. One proved memorable not because it was singular but because it was typical. We were discussing “Iola Leroy,” an 1892 novel by Frances E. W. Harper — one of the first novels published by an African American woman — whose female protagonist is mixed-race but looks white.
