In Bebe Moore Campbells Brothers and Sisters, Humphrey Boone is offered a seemingly wonderful deal by his job interviewer: "If you accept my offer and do the job that I believe youre capable of, Ill groom you for the presidency." A generous offer indeed until one realizes that for a black man, the capabilities to which the interviewer refers include such factors as being self-effacing, conforming ones speech to "clipped enunciation and perfect diction, " and above all…
Author: James Robert Saunders · Original publisher: McFarland (1997) (later/standard edition)
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