Juneteenth : a novel /
Ralph Ellison ; edited by John F. Callahan ; preface by Charles Johnson.
- 1st Vintage International ed.
- New York : Vintage Books, 2000, 1999.
- xxxi, 368 p. ; 21 cm.
The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out. An unfinished novel by the author of Invisible Man.
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African American clergy--Fiction Passing Identity--Fiction African Americans--Fiction Race relations--Fiction Legislators--Fiction Blacks--United States Race Relations--United States Literature Modern--United States