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
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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