White like her, my family's story of race and racial passing
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White like her, my family's story of race and racial passing
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eng
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White like her
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electronic resource
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my family's story of race and racial passing
Summary
In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother's fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother's racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage.With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers
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adult
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- Lukasik, Gail -- Family
- African Americans + Race identity -- Case studies
- Racially mixed women + Race identity -- United States
- Racially mixed women -- United States -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
- United States -- Race relations
- African American women + Race identity -- Case studies
- Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies
- Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography
- Kalina, Alvera Frederic, 1921-2014
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- Lukasik, Gail -- Family
- African Americans + Race identity -- Case studies
- Racially mixed women + Race identity -- United States
- Racially mixed women -- United States -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
- United States -- Race relations
- African American women + Race identity -- Case studies
- Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies
- Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography
- Kalina, Alvera Frederic, 1921-2014
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- Author1
- writerofforeword1
- Narrator1