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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing

As seen on The Today Show! “Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history.”—Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS’s Genealogy RoadshowWhite Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption.In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her African-American mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness.Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage.With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers.

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 1510724125

 

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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial
As seen on The Today Show! “Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history.”—Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self discovery and ...
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the ...
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial
As seen on The Today Show! “Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history.”—Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self discovery and ...
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self discovery and redemption.
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial
Investigating family secrets, and tracing down her family tree, Lukasik also traces the history of our nation's institutionalization of racism and the arcane, often bizarre legal structure which legislators cobbled together in the decades after Reconstruction, many of which laws remained on the books until relatively recent times.
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing MP3 CD – Unabridged, February 27, 2018 by Gail Lukasik (Author) › Visit 's Gail Lukasik Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Are you an author? Learn about Author Central ...
About White Like Her and how PBS’ Genealogy Roadshow
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is that book. Inspired by the Roadshow, the book is the culmination of a journey that explores one family’s racial secrets, spanning four centuries of American history.
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial
White Like Her tells the story of my mother’s passing, my struggle with the shame of her choice, and my subsequent inner journey of self discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, I explore my mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from my father, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness.
My mother spent her life passing as white Discovering her
Gail Lukasik is the author of White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing, four mystery novels and more. She lives in Illinois with her husband. This post has been updated. Share...
Alvera Frederic
Alvera Rita Frederic Kalina, (October 21, 1921 – April 5, 2014) was a multiracial woman who passed as white, married a racist white man and kept the secret of her heritage from her children. Her parents were Camille Kilbourne and Azemar Alfred Frederic (born 1897). She was listed in the Louisiana census as 'Col', or colored.

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