Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination poetry 000 people on the Dominican-Haitian

000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937

but that all changed when his father was viciously murdered and he found himself thrust into the role of the new head of his family's criminal enterprise

Building Karibu became Sana’s opportunity to bind the disparate elements of his life together

For most of the twentieth century

no more personal attachments

Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination poetry 000 people on the Dominican-HaitianWhat is "race"? A biological fact, a social construction, or an assumed disguise? In Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination, acclaimed novelist and critic Adam Lively offers a brilliant exploration of how the concept of blackness has evolved in Western thought and literature, and how changing notions of racial identity helped to shape modern consciousness. Lively traces ideas of racial difference to their earliest expressions in European culture,