Invisible Blackness: A Louisiana Family in the Age of Racial Passing - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807183823ISBN-10:807183822UPC:9780807183823Book Category:Social Science, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Race & Ethnic Relations, United States, African American & BlackBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.69 x 5.84 x 1.08 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCV4DC70ED
Invisible Blackness explores the complex lives of Creoles of mixed race born in Louisiana to enslaved women and the white men who enslaved them. Individuals such as Alice Thomasson Grice forged their own identities--and often reinvented themselves--within the increasingly strict racial order of antebellum and postbellum Louisiana.
Alice Thomasson Grice occupied an unusual position among...Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807183823ISBN-10:807183822UPC:9780807183823Book Category:Social Science, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Race & Ethnic Relations, United States, African American & BlackBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.69 x 5.84 x 1.08 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCV4DC70ED
Katy Morlas Shannon is the author of Antoine of Oak Alley: The Unlikely Origin of Southern Pecans and the Enslaved Gardener Who Cultivated Them, which won the 2022 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for best biography. She was instrumental in the early stages of research for Whitney Plantation, created a searchable online database of more than four hundred enslaved individuals at Evergreen Plantation,...
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