SOURCE: Thompson, Debby. “‘What Exactly Is a Black?’: Interrogating the Reality of Race in Jean Genet's The Blacks.” Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 26, no. 2 (summer 2002): 395-425.
In the following excerpt, Thompson provides a broad discussion of race within The Blacks, arguing that the purpose of the play is not the determination of “blackness,” but the dramatization of white guilt and how to embrace the issue of racial relations.
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