Forbidden love : the secret history of mixed-race America / Gary B. Nash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Gary B.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Edge books.

Edge books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mestizos--United States--History.

Mestizos.

Mestizos--United States--Biography.

Multiracial people--United States--History.

Multiracial people.

Multiracial people--United States--Biography.

History.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Mestizos--Biography.

Multiracial people--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : H. Holt, 1999.

Summary:

Presents accounts of how mainly anonymous Americans have defied the official racial ideology and points out how guardians of the past have written that side of our history out of the record.

Contents:

The America that might hve been (Profile: Paul Cuffee : African-Indian sea captain)

The mingling of blood on new world frontiers (Profile: Mary Musgrove : power broker of the early South)

Race in the Americas : the Spanish and English difference

The United States of the disunited races (Profile: Lemuel Haynes : Black preacher to white America)

Building walls (Profile: Edmonia Lewis : Chippewa-African-American sculptress)

Interracial renegades

Tearing walls down (Profile: Frances Fitzpatrick Osato : refugee from debutantism)

Recapturing the dream (Profile: Peggy Rusk : diplomat's daughter)

The end of walls? (Profile: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods : multiracial golfer).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0805049533

9780805049534

OCLC:

38426092

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