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Racial Noir: Six Full Novels By /////

Racial Noir: Six Full Novels Six classic novels rife with passion, crime, betrayal, sex and violence set amidst the racial conflicts raging in the deep south in the 1950s and 60s. 

A WIND IS RISING by William Russell
FACE OF MY ASSASSIN by Carolyn Weston and Jan Huckins
HONEY IN LOUISIANA (Two Novels) by John B. Thompson
THE INTEGRATION OF MAYBELLE BROWN by Bonnie Golightly
QUALITY by CID RIckets Sumner
THE PEOPLE FROM HEAVEN by John Sanford

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Quality "She has written the most profound approach yet to the race issue. A superior piece of literature from all angles. Every word she writes is true." Birmingham News

Boston nursing school graduate Pinkey Johnson has blond hair, blue eyes and a secret-- she's actually black. She's managed to fit in naturally among her new friends in the North, but she never quite fit within the small, southern town she came from. But now, on the eve of marrying a white doctor, and forced to tell him the truth about herself, she returns to Mississippi, where she must face the racism and inequities that are a way of life for blacks in the south of the 1940s. And yet she stays, struggling to find both herself and her place in a world that's dangerously black and white.