Damn near white : an African American family's rise from slavery to bittersweet success / Carolyn Marie Wilkins.

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"Damn Near White is an insider's portrait of an unusual American family. Readers will be drawn into Carolyn's journey as she struggles to redefine herself in light of the long-buried secrets she uncovers. Tackling issues of class, color, and caste, Wilkins reflects on the changes of African American...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilkins, Carolyn (Carolyn Marie)
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Wilkins, Carolyn > (Carolyn Marie) > Family.
Wilkinson family.
African Americans > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Race identity.
African American families > Biography.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:x, 186 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
African American family's rise from slavery to bittersweet success.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The black bourgeois blues
  • The research begins, 1995
  • The early career of J. Ernest Wilkins
  • Chicago
  • I discover a new ancestor
  • Memphis, Tennessee, 1874-1878
  • The renegade Baptist, 1885-1887
  • The people's temple, 1887-1888
  • The bigamist, 1889-1915
  • St. Louis
  • Farmington, Missouri
  • Blackness
  • J. Ernest Wilkins in Washington, 1853-1955
  • In Washington, 1955-1957
  • The Civil Rights Commission, 1957-1958.