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TL;DR: Lloyd, C. as discussed by the authors, "Bodies that (Don't) Matter: Regulating Race on the Toilet in Kathryn Stockett's The Help." Studies in American Fiction, vol. 43 no. 2, 2016, pp. 259-275.
Abstract: Lloyd, C. "Bodies that (Don’t) Matter: Regulating Race on the Toilet in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help." Studies in American Fiction, vol. 43 no. 2, 2016, pp. 259-275. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/saf.2016.0012. © 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an archaeological expedition that aims to excavate the ancient cultural capital of Meroe, Ethiopia, which they call Of One Blood, published serially between November 1902 and November 1903 in the Colored American Magazine.
Abstract: Pauline Hopkins’s novel Of One Blood, published serially between November 1902 and November 1903 in the Colored American Magazine, depicts an archaeological expedition that aims to excavate the ancient cultural capital of Meroe, Ethiopia. This endeavor promises to make its participants wealthy as well as to recover lost African histories. As the expedition reaches East Africa, one of the novel’s white archeologists, Charlie Vance, gives voice to commonplace western perceptions of Africa:

2 citations