BookParallel worlds : the remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the enduring (in)significance ...
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Main title
- Parallel worlds : the remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the enduring (in)significance of melanin / Adele Logan Alexander.
Published/Created
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
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Description
- x, 375 p., [27] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
- 9780813928876 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813928877 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780813929781 (e-book)
- 0813929784 (e-book)
LC classification
- E185.96 .A474 2010
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.
LC Subjects
- Hunt, William Henry, 1863-1951.
- Hunt, Ida Gibbs, 1862-1957.
- Hunt, William Henry, 1863-1951--Travel.
- Hunt, Ida Gibbs, 1862-1957--Travel.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Married people--United States--Biography.
- African American diplomats--Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers--Biography.
- African Americans--Race identity--Case studies.
- Sex role--United States--Case studies.
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 2009031042
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- 323.092 B
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- n-us---
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- (OCoLC)ocn429902455
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- Book
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