The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (Including Hagar's Daughter Winona and of One Blood)

The Colored American Magazine first published in 1900 was a pioneering forum for black literary talent. Pauline Hopkins was not only a prolific contributor but one of its powerful editorial forces. These stories reveal her commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change weaving themes such as white oppression the heroism of black women and the need for organized resistance to persecution into the narrative formulas of popular fiction.