... . Like the promise envisioned for the "freedmen- during Reconstruction, the idea of improved racial circumstances is completely illusory. Most of the real and imitated identities in both Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins have been displaced or confused, causing dislocation and social discord. The seemingly tragic and completely ironic outcomes actually give comfort because they reestablish the perverted racial ... "measures that, as the history of race relations demonstrates, we nevertheless totally depend upon. For without such constructs, or when they are momentarily inve...

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