SOURCE: “The Emerging Self: Young-adult and Classic Novels of the Black Experience,” in English Journal, Vol. 82, September, 1993, p. 50.
In the following excerpt from an essay on Petry, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston, Gebhard recommends The Street to high school readers who want to understand the search for black cultural identity.
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