There is confusion, Jessie Redmon Fauset ; introduction by Morgan Jerkins
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- Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
- Race relations + History -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Minority groups -- Fiction
- Racial relations + History -- Fiction
- Love triangles
- Sexual relationships
- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Racial oppression + History -- Fiction
- BIPOC -- Fiction
- BIPOC
- Black people -- Fiction
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There is confusion, Jessie Redmon Fauset ; introduction by Morgan Jerkins
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eng
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There is confusion
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1110445727
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Jessie Redmon Fauset ; introduction by Morgan Jerkins
Summary
Set in early twentieth-century New York City, There Is Confusion tells the story of Joanna Marshall, a talented dancer willing to sacrifice everything for success; Maggie Ellersley, an extraordinarily beautiful girl determined to leave her working-class background behind; and Peter Bye, a clever would-be surgeon who is driven by his love for Joanna. As children, Maggie, Joanna, and Peter support each other's dreams. But when romance threatens to change the balance of their friendship, Joanna makes two irrevocable decisions--and sets off a chain of events that wreaks havoc with all of their lives. First published to immense critical acclaim in 1924, written with an Austen-like eye for social dynamics and insight into the lives of black women that is reminiscent of Nella Larsen, There Is Confusion is an unjustly forgotten classic about color consciousness, the rise of the black middle class, and the struggle for equality
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