Parallel worlds : the remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the enduring (in)significance of melanin

Alexander, Adele Logan, 1938-

2010, Book , x, 375 pages, [27] pages of plates :

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Publication information:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
ISBN:	0813928877 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN:	9780813928876 (cloth : alk. paper)
Language:	English
Record ID:	2778753
Format:	Regular Print Book
Physical description:	x, 375 pages, [27] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Date acquired:	August 23, 2011
More creator details:	Adele Logan Alexander.
Contents note:	Prologue: Wedding album, Washington, D.C., 1904 -- Family portraits -- The vice president's daughters -- Mirror of the times : reflections on the lives of M.W. Gibbs -- Ida Alexander Gibbs's pictures from a well-spent youth -- "From cabin to consulate" : Billy Hunt's memory book -- Worlds apart -- The Madagascar portfolio, 1898-1907 : colonials on the Great Red Island -- France, 1907-1918 : la Ville Noire and la Guerre Mondiale -- France, 1918-1927 : pan-Africanism and postwar consular life -- Snapshots from Guadeloupe, 1927-1929 -- Odysseys through the Portuguese Atlantic, 1929-1931 -- Liberia, 1931-1932 : negative forces, forced labor, forced out -- Fading images : Washington, D.C., 1932-1957 -- Epilogue: The Gibbs-Hunts' stories and mine.

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