Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line / Martha A. Sandweiss.
By: Sandweiss, Martha A.
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BookPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2009Description: 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781594202001 (trade); 1594202001.Subject(s): African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies | Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies | Married people -- United States -- Case studies | Deception -- United States -- Case studies | King, Clarence, 1842-1901 | King, Ada, 1860-1964 | King, Clarence, 1842-1901 -- Marriage | United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century | African American women -- Biography | New York (N.Y.) -- Biography | African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies | Identity (Psychology) -- Case studies | Married people -- United States -- Case studies | Deception -- Case studies | King, Clarence, 1842-1901 | King, Ada, 1860-1964 | United States -- Race relations -- History | African American women -- Biography | New York (N.Y.) -- BiographyDDC classification: 305.896/073 Summary: Relates the story of Clarence King, a geologist who fell in love with an African-American woman and in order to avoid being charged with miscegenation lied to her, claiming he was an African-American railroad worker and eventually marrying her, but continued his professional life as Clarence King without her knowing.
Relates the story of Clarence King, a geologist who fell in love with an African-American woman and in order to avoid being charged with miscegenation lied to her, claiming he was an African-American railroad worker and eventually marrying her, but continued his professional life as Clarence King without her knowing.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-358) and index.
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