Identify this work:  “[This work] is a reaction to the racia…

Identify this work:  “[This work] is a reaction to the racial climate of the late nineteenth century. [The author] talks about hypocrisy, deception, and the fact that black Americans often resorted to seeming content with their social circumstances. But behind all that seeming, though, is just a bunch of lies trying to cover up the fact that they were feeling pretty rotten and unable to talk about their feelings in an honest way.”