Abstract
Many contemporary scholars accept that, until near the end of her career, Sarah Orne Jewett participated in the American construction of the superiority of whiteness by affirming almost universal nineteenth-century essentialist beliefs about racial hierarchy. This essay tests that interpretation by examining her fictional representations of African Americans.
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