23) While Randolph may be unfamiliar to most contemporary scholars, the second author is not: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's novel Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) was published simultaneously by James H.

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Interspersing a quote from Frances Harper's 1893 novel, Iola Leroy, in which a white Southerner claims that "tricks of the blood" betray white-looking blacks to a practiced (white) eye, Piper implicitly aligns these inclusive assertions on the part of middle-class blacks with exclusionary statements made by racist whites near the turn of the twentieth century, when hysteria about miscegenation and interracial proximity was reaching its peak in the South.