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050 0 0 _aE185.625
_b.S255 2009
082 0 0 _a92 KIN
100 1 _aSandweiss, Martha A.
245 1 0 _aPassing strange
_b: a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line
_c/ Martha A. Sandweiss
260 _aNew York
_b: Penguin Press
_c, 2009.
300 _a370 p., [8] p. of plates
_b: ill.
_c; 24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [313]-358) and index.
520 _a"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.
600 1 0 _aKing, Clarence
_d, 1842-1901
600 1 0 _aKing, Ada
_d, 1860-1964
650 _aAfrican Americans
_x-Race identity
650 0 _aPassing (Identity)
650 0 _aMarried people
_z--United States
_x--Case studies
650 0 _aDeception
_z--United States
650 _aAfrican Americans
_v--Biography
651 0 _aUnited States
_x--Race relations
651 4 _aNew York (N.Y.)
_v--Biography
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