Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Green Card Voices King Alexander I suspended democracy

King Alexander I suspended democracy and ruled as a dictator until he himself was assassinated in 1934

Hortense Spillers

Approximately two hundred thousand Africans were imported into Mexico from Spain and from West and West Central Africa during the course of the slave trade

a leading figure in the Black British arts movement

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Green Card Voices King Alexander I suspended democracyAn immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on raceand promises to change the way we read American literaturefrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires.