Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family ebook download Neil Henry

Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family

Pearl's Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative in a riveting, true-to-life mystery. In it, Neil Henry--a black professor of journalism and former award-winning correspondent for the Washington Post--sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's past. His search for the white branch of his family becomes a deeply personal odyssey, one in which Henry deploys all of his journalistic skills to uncover the paper trail that leads to blood relations who have lived for more than a century on the opposite side of the color line. At the same time Henry gives a powerful and vivid account of his black family's rise to success over the twentieth century. Throughout the course of this gripping story the author reflects on the part that racism and racial ignorance have played in his daily life--from his boyhood in largely white Seattle to his current role as a parent and educator in California.

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Title of ebook: Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family
ISBN: 9780520900004
parent-ISBN: 9780520222571
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages: 321
Published: 05-2001
Released online for download: 05-01-2001
Author of eBook: Henry, Neil

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Contents

Prelude..............................................................1 Beginning Family Tree...............................................15 PART ONE: SEARCH 1. Clues in Microfilm...........................................19 2. Road Maps....................................................63 3. Natchez.....................................................109 4. Jim Crow's Shadow...........................................157 PART TWO: DISCOVERY 5. The Chase...................................................199 6. "Welcome to the Family".....................................231 7. Tenth Man Classic...........................................279 Complete Family Tree...............................................314 Acknowledgments....................................................317

Chapter One

Clues in Microfilm

How do you find the descendants of a white man who was born in England in 1839 and died quietly in a small town in Louisiana nearly a century ago? How can you discover if this man even ... read full excerpt from: Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family ebook

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