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  1. The invisible line
    three American families and the secret journey from Black to white
    Author: Sharfstein, Daniel J.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Penguin Press, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781594202827
    RVK Categories: MS 3450
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Gesellschaft; Racially mixed people; Miscegenation; Passing (Identity); Race; Race awareness; Passing; Identität; Interethnische Ehe
    Other subjects: Gibson family; Spencer family; Walls family
    Scope: X, 396 S., [8] Bl., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. The invisible line
    three American families and the secret journey from Black to white
    Author: Sharfstein, Daniel J.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Penguin Press, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781594202827
    RVK Categories: MS 3450
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Gesellschaft; Racially mixed people; Miscegenation; Passing (Identity); Race; Race awareness; Passing; Identität; Interethnische Ehe
    Other subjects: Gibson family; Spencer family; Walls family
    Scope: X, 396 S., [8] Bl., Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  3. The invisible line
    three American families and the secret journey from Black to white
    Author: Sharfstein, Daniel J.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Penguin Press, New York, NY [u.a.]

    This 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... more

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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    2011 A 8396
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    Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
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    This 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 One 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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781594202827
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    9781594202827
    RVK Categories: NW 2708
    Subjects: Racially mixed people; Miscegenation; Passing (Identity); Race; Race awareness; USA; Interrassische Ehe; Passing; Identität
    Other subjects: Gibson family; Spencer family; Walls family
    Scope: X, 396 S., Ill., graph. Darst.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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 : September 1858, Oberlin, Ohio -- Civil War : Wall, Gibson, and Spencer -- Civil War : Wall & Gibson -- Gibson : February 2, 1866 -- 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, New Orleans, and Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1888-92 -- Wall : Washington, D.C., 1890-91 -- Spencer : Jordan Gap, Spring 1900 -- Wall : Washington, D.C., 1909 -- Spencer : Home Creek, Buchanan County, Virginia 1912 -- Gibson : Paris, 1931 -- Wall : Freeport, Long Island, 1946.