![]() ![]() ![]() Writing under the pseudonym Communipaw, McCune Smith’s satirical sketches focused on New York’s black working class. He was an abolitionist and a public intellectual whom Douglass had appointed as his paper’s New York correspondent. ![]() The author, James McCune Smith, was a surgeon-the first black American to obtain a medical degree. The book’s title and format are based on a series of literary sketches titled “Heads of the Colored People, Done with a Whitewash Brush,” published between 18 in the weekly Frederick Douglass’ Paper, out of Rochester, N.Y. “That’s a thing I think a lot of us know well, but I haven’t read too many stories about those kinds of people.” “I wanted to represent black characters who are marginalized in the white world, but also even marginalized within blackness: people who are accused of sounding white because of the way they speak, people who are really nerdy-a different angle of black identity,” Thompson-Spires says. ![]()
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