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• 1 2016-11-23T12:50:22-05:00 A Colored Seance 4 plain 2016-12-16T21:08:09-05:00 Published in the magazine Every Week in 1892, the anonymous author of “A Coloured Séance” gives us a brief glimpse into an entirely black, female séance (it is not clear if the medium is black though the author is explicit in explaining the other sitters are). As short as it is the article gives readers insight into how race was constructed not just as skin color but also through linguistic and religious structures. In turn, the séance verbally reifies black inferiority through the comic treatment of the women's emotional distress at contacting (or believing they are contacting) their loved ones.