The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America

Daniel J. Sharfstein

The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country
United States
Published
31 January 2012
Pages
432
ISBN
9780143120636

The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America

Daniel J. Sharfstein

An astonishingly detailed rendering of the variety and complexity of racial experience in an evolving national culture.

-The New York Times Book ReviewIn the Obama era, as Americans confront the enduring significance of race and heritage, this multigenerational account of family secrets promises to spark debate across the country. Daniel J. Sharfstein’s sweeping history moves from eighteenth-century South Carolina to twentieth-century Washington, D.C., unraveling the stories of three families who represent the complexity of race in America. Identifying first as people of color and later as whites, the families provide a lens through which to examine how people thought about and experienced race and how, for them and America, the very meanings of black and white changed. The Invisible Line cuts through centuries of myth to transform the way we see ourselves.

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