The Frame

from the pen of Jandy Stone

Posts Tagged ‘race relations’

Can’t Quit You, Baby

By Jandy • Nov 13th, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews

by Ellen Douglas
Hands down my favorite book of the semester so far, and likely to remain so. I can’t decide if I’m just incredibly lucky that I picked this one to write about for my short paper, or if I like it so much at least partially because writing about it made me read it [...]



A Gathering of Old Men

By Jandy • Nov 13th, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews

by Ernest Gaines
It’s the mid-1960s, but in the rural Southern setting of this novel, the remnants of slavery are still evident; the aging white landowners occupy the plantation house, while the ten or fifteen black families live down in the old quarters. Racial issues come to the fore, but are anything but cut and dried, [...]



The Emperor Jones

By Jandy • Mar 25th, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews

by Eugene O’Neill
I…didn’t really know what to make of this play upon reading it, and I’m still not sure. Jones is a black man from United States who goes to an island in the Caribbean and convinces the native Negro inhabitants to make him their Emperor. The action of the play concerns Jones’s attempt to [...]



The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

By Jandy • Mar 25th, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews

by James Weldon Johnson
This is not, despite the title, an autobiography. It is fiction. Interestingly, Johnson originally published it in 1912 anonymously, leading many people to think it was an actual autobiography of a biracial man passing as white. It’s still powerful, though, even when you know it’s not true–in fact, it adds a level [...]



Spinning Into Butter

By Jandy • Jan 3rd, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews

by Rebecca Gilman
A small college in New Hampshire, largely white in faculty and student body, is thrown into turmoil when a black student begins receiving threats and hate mail. The main character is the Dean of Students, who came to New Hampshire after working at a largely black institution in Chicago, so a lot of [...]