Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line
Sandweiss, Martha A.
Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line / Martha A. Sandweiss - New York : Penguin Press , 2009. - 370 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-358) and index.
"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.
9781594202001
2008034886
King, Clarence , 1842-1901
King, Ada , 1860-1964
African Americans---Race identity
Passing (Identity)
Married people----Case studies----United States
Deception----United States
African Americans----Biography
United States----Race relations
New York (N.Y.)----Biography
E185.625 / .S255 2009
92 KIN
Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line / Martha A. Sandweiss - New York : Penguin Press , 2009. - 370 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-358) and index.
"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.
9781594202001
2008034886
King, Clarence , 1842-1901
King, Ada , 1860-1964
African Americans---Race identity
Passing (Identity)
Married people----Case studies----United States
Deception----United States
African Americans----Biography
United States----Race relations
New York (N.Y.)----Biography
E185.625 / .S255 2009
92 KIN
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