Passing Strange - A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception across the Color Line
Martha A. Sandweiss
Penguin Press HC, The (2009)
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Biography
African Americans - Race Identity - Case Studies, Married People - Case Studies. - United States, New York (N.Y.) - Biography, Passing (Identity) - Case Studies. - United States, United States - Race Relations
Hardcover 9781594202001
English
"Passing Strange" is a uniquely American biography of Clarence King, who hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family: for 13 years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd.
Product Details
LoC Classification E185.625 .S255 2009
LoC Control Number 2008034886
Dewey 305.896073
Cover Price $27.95
No. of Pages 384
Height x Width 9.4 x 6.3  inch
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