Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920 by James M. O'Toole

Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920

James M. O'Toole

304 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history religion emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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Through the prism of one family's experience, this book explores questions of racial identity, religious tolerance, and black-white "passing" in America. Spanning the century from 1820 to 1920, it tells the story of Michael Morris Healy, a white I...

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