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000352100 05000 $$aE184.A1$$bS5724 2011
000352100 08200 $$a305.800973$$222
000352100 1001_ $$aSharfstein, Daniel J.
000352100 24514 $$aThe invisible line :$$bthree American families and the secret journey from black to white /$$cDaniel J. Sharfstein.
000352100 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPenguin Press,$$c2011.
000352100 300__ $$ax, 396 p., [16] p. of plates :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm.
000352100 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000352100 5050_ $$aThe house behind the cedars -- Gibson: Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1768 -- Wall: Rockingham, North Carolina, 1838 -- Spencer: Clay County, Kentucky, 1848 -- Gibson: New Haven, Connecticut, 1850-55 -- Spencer: Jordan Gap, Johnson County, Kentucky, 1855 -- Wall: Oberlin, Ohio, September 1858 -- Civil War: Wall, Gibson, and Spencer, 1859-63 -- Civil War: Wall and Gibson, 1963-66 -- Gibson: Mississippi, New Orleans, and New York, 1866-68 -- Wall: Washington, D.C., June 14, 1871 -- Spencer: Jordan Gap, Johnson County, Kentucky, 1870s -- Gibson: Washington, D.C., 1878 -- Wall: Washington, D.C., January 21, 1880 -- Gibson: Washington, D.C., New Orleans, and Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1888-92 -- Wall: Washington, D.C., 1890-91 -- Spencer: Jordan Gap, Johnson County, Kentucky, ca. 1900 -- Wall: Washington, D.C., 1909 -- Spencer: Home Creek, Buchanan County, Virginia 1912 -- Gibson: Paris and Chicago, 1931-33 -- Wall: Freeport, Long Island, 1946.
000352100 520__ $$aThis work is a multigenerational saga of three American families crossing the racial divide. In America, race is a riddle. The stories we tell about our past have calcified into the fiction that we are neatly divided into black or white. It is only with the widespread availability of DNA testing and the boom in genealogical research that the frequency with which individuals and entire families crossed the color line has become clear. In this history, the author unravels the stories of three extraordinary families from different eras of American history to represent the complexity of race in America and to force us to rethink our basic assumptions about who we are. The Gibsons were wealthy landowners in the South Carolina backcountry who became white in the 1760s, ascending to the heights of the Southern elite and, ultimately, to the United States Senate. The Spencers were hardscrabble farmers in the hills of eastern Kentucky, joining an isolated Appalachian community in the 1840s and for the better part of a century hovering on the line between white and black. The Walls were fixtures of the rising black middle class in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., only to give up everything they had fought for to become white at the dawn of the twentieth century. Together, their interwoven and intersecting stories uncover a forgotten America in which the rules of race were something to be believed, but not necessarily obeyed.  Defining their identities first as people of color and later as whites, the families provide a lens for understanding how people thought about and experienced race and how these ideas and experiences evolved, how the very meaning of black and white changed over time. This work cuts through centuries of myth and amnesia and poisonous racial politics and change how we talk about race, racism, and civil rights.
000352100 520__ $$aOne of the nation's most accomplished historians unravels the stories of three extraordinary families from different eras in American history to represent the complexity of race in America, and to force readers to rethink assumptions about race, racism, and civil rights.
000352100 60030 $$aGibson family.
000352100 60030 $$aSpencer family.
000352100 60030 $$aWalls family.
000352100 650_0 $$aRacially mixed people$$xRace identity$$zUnited States$$vCase studies.
000352100 650_0 $$aMiscegenation$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States$$vCase studies.
000352100 650_0 $$aPassing (Identity)$$zUnited States$$vCase studies.
000352100 650_0 $$aRace$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States$$vCase studies.
000352100 650_0 $$aRace awareness$$zUnited States$$vCase studies.
000352100 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xRace relations$$vCase studies.
000352100 85200 $$bgen$$hE184.A1$$iS5724$$i2011
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