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

Identify this work:  “ is a reaction to the racial climate of the late nineteenth century. 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.”