White like Her
- Author Gail Lukasik
- Narrator Bernadette Dunne
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 27 February 2018
- Run Time 9 hours and 58 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: general, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic studies, Gender studies: women and girls, Memoirs, Social and cultural history.
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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
“Lukasik, with the persistence and canniness of the sleuths as the detective novelist she sometimes impersonates, explores how complicated race is in America.”
“Meticulously researched…Offers new insights into issues surrounding the complex history of racial passing in the United States.”
“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.”
“Offers new insights into issues surrounding the complex history of racial passing in the United States.”
“Lukasik, bravely and eloquently, writes with a researcher’s eye and a daughter’s heart.”
“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.”
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