Parallel Worlds : The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (in)significance of Melanin / Adele Logan Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Adele Logan, 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

Married people--United States--Biography.

Married people.

African American diplomats--Biography.

African American diplomats.

African American women civil rights workers--Biography.

African American women civil rights workers.

African Americans--Race identity--Case studies.

Sex role--United States--Case studies.

Sex role.

Hunt, William Henry, 1863-1951.

Hunt, William Henry.

Hunt, Ida Gibbs, 1862-1957.

Hunt, Ida Gibbs.

Hunt, William Henry, 1863-1951--Travel.

Hunt, Ida Gibbs, 1862-1957--Travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2010]

Summary:

She presents a nuanced account of the complex impact of race in the early twentieth-century world.

Contents:

Prologue: Wedding album, Washington, D.C., 1904

Family portraits

The vice president's daughters

Mirror of the times : reflections on the lives of M.W. Gibbs

Ida Alexander Gibbs's pictures from a well-spent youth

"From cabin to consulate" : Billy Hunt's memory book

Worlds apart

The Madagascar portfolio, 1898-1907 : colonials on the Great Red Island

France, 1907-1918 : la Ville Noire and la Guerre Mondiale

France, 1918-1927 : pan-Africanism and postwar consular life

Snapshots from Guadeloupe, 1927-1929

Odysseys through the Portuguese Atlantic, 1929-1931

Liberia, 1931-1932 : negative forces, forced labor, forced out

Fading images : Washington, D.C., 1932-1957

Epilogue: The Gibbs-Hunts' stories and mine.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780813929781

0813929784