SOURCE: "Limited Options: Strategic Maneuverings in Himes's Harlem," African American Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, Winter, 1994, pp. 615-31.
In the following essay, Walters traces Himes's representation of "the absurdity of U.S. race relations" in his fiction.
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