The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in ReconstructionIn The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to 19th century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed race urbanites enjoyed some rights of citizenship and the privileges of wealth and social status. But after Emancipation, as former slaves move to assert their rights, the black white binary that rules

reprinted 2007 by Baylor University Press

But these labels tell us little about the man or his music

American diplomacy is under siege

going to jail

for most of the 20th century

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While she receives many condolences

The contributors to this important volume also provide a critical analysis of the impact of globalization

in one's community

Scripture: I thank God upon every remembrance of you

It is a powerful and provocative reinterpretation of the African-American experience from its African roots to the present and conveys important new historical information and ideas based upon extensive original research and the most important published scholarship in the field

ISBN-13 : 978-1885778352