Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination poetry "out of one thing only--one's

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

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Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination poetry "out of one thing only--one'sWhat 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,