@book{120,
  keywords = {romantic relationships, racism, Black Americans},
  author = {Margaret Deland},
  title = {R. J.'s Mother and Some Other People},
  abstract = {Deland’s fourth short story collection includes “A Black Drop,” in which Lily, a Southern belle, is engaged to the scion of a Northern abolitionist family. Despite his politics, he leaves Lily when he suspects she may have black ancestry. Lily's question—"Even if I wasn't white, ain't I just the same girl"—goes unanswered.},
  year = {1908},
  pages = {312 p.},
  publisher = {Harper & Brothers},
  address = {New York},
  note = {Pittsburgh is disguised as Mercer.

"A Black Drop" first appeared in <em>Collier's</em> in 1908.},
  language = {English},
}