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Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line / Martha A. Sandweiss. |
| Authors: | Sandweiss, Martha A. |
| Call number: | 305.896 SAN |
| Publisher: | New York : Penguin Press, 2009. |
| Publication date: | 2009. |
| Subject: |
African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies.
Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies. Married people -- United States -- Case studies. Deception -- United States -- Case studies. African American women -- Biography. King, Clarence, 1842-1901. King, Ada, 1860-1964. King, Clarence, 1842-1901 -- Marriage. United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. New York (N.Y.) -- Biography. |
| Title: | Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line / Martha A. Sandweiss. |
| Physical description: | 370 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: | An invented life -- Clarence King and Ada Copeland -- Becoming Clarence King -- King of the West -- Becoming Ada Copeland -- King of the city -- James and Ada Todd -- New beginnings -- Family lives -- Breakdowns -- Endings -- Ada King -- On her own -- The trial -- Secrets. |
| Summary note: | "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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-358) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781594202001 1594202001 |
| LCCN: | 2008034886 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1187444 |
| Bib No.: | 1187444 |
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