thejt33 's review for:

Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South by Pauline E. Hopkins

2.0

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Half the book is just political speeches and the other half is a fairly uninteresting romance plot where the point seems to be that mixed race people are the best but only if they have the proper mixture of blood. Not sure if I was more confused by the family tree or by Hopkins's bizarre views on race as a biological reality.