Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879 Contributor(s): Alexander, Adele Logan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557282153 ISBN-13: 9781557282156 Publisher: University of Arkansas Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1992 Annotation: Written as a "reclamation" of long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives is more than the story of one family -- it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave. -- 1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Women's Studies - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 91010151 |
Series: Black Community Studies |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.06" W x 9.08" (1.08 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Georgia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights Ambiguous Lives focuses on the women of Alexander's own family as representative of this subcaste of the African-American community. Their forbears, in fact, included Africans, Native Americans, and whites. Neither black nor white, affluent nor impoverished, enslaved nor truly free, these women of color lived and died in a shadowy realm situated somewhere between the legal, social, and economic extremes of empowered whites and subjugated blacks. Yet, as Alexander persuasively argues, these lives are worthy of attention precisely because of these ambiguities--because the intricacies, gradations, and subtleties of their anomalous experience became part of the tangled skein of American history and exemplify our country's endless diversity, complexity, and self-contradictions. Written as a "reclamation" of a long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives is more than the story of one family--it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave. |