Jessie Redmon Fauset’s “Comedy: American Style” and the Psychological Impact on Racism

Matthew Teutsch
6 min readMar 26

As I was constructing my syllabus for my upcoming “Black Expatriate Writers in France” syllabus, I wanted to make sure I had at least one text by an African American woman author. Since I as focusing on the South of France, specifically Provence (Avignon, Marseille, and Nice), I wanted texts that either took part, entirely, in the region or…

Matthew Teutsch

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