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White like Her
- Author
- Gail Lukasik
- Narrator
- Bernadette Dunne
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 27 February 2018
- Run Time
- 9 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 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.
Critics Review
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“Lukasik, with the persistence and canniness of the sleuths as the detective novelist she sometimes impersonates, explores how complicated race is in America.”
Randy Fertel, author of The Gorilla Man
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“Meticulously researched…Offers new insights into issues surrounding the complex history of racial passing in the United States.”
Ronne Hartfield, author of Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family
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“In White Like Her, Lukasik, with the persistence and canniness of the sleuths and the detective novelists she sometimes impersonates, explores how complicated race is in America.”
Randy Fertel, author of The Gorilla Man
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“Offers new insights into issues surrounding the complex history of racial passing in the United States.”
Ronne Hartfield, author of Another Way Home
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“Lukasik, bravely and eloquently, writes with a researcher’s eye and a daughter’s heart.”
Goldie Taylor, editor-at-large of the Daily Beast
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“Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history…[and] adds to the ongoing conversation about race and racial identity in America because it looks at the ramifications of institutionalized racialism and racial passing through one family’s story.”
Kenyatta D. Berry, host of PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow
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Details
- Author
- Gail Lukasik
- Narrator
- Bernadette Dunne
- Duration
- 9 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 February 2018
- ISBN
- 9781538540565
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Biography: general, Ethnic studies, Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethnic studies, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural history, Memoirs
Synopsis
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 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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