White like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
- 9h 57m 31s
- Gail Lukasik PhD
- Blackstone Audio, Inc. dba Blackstone Publishing
- 2018
In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother's fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother's racial lineage, tracing her family back to 18th-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage.
With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers. A Washington Post Notable Book of 2017's Most Inspiring Stories.
In this Audiobook
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Chapter 1 - PBS's Genealogy Roadshow Season Two Taping
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Chapter 2 - Secrets and Lies
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Chapter 3 - “There's a Nigger in Every Woodshed.”
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Chapter 4 - Getting Proof
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Chapter 5 - The Vow
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Chapter 6 - Creole, Anyone?
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Chapter 7 - Taking Her Secret to the Grave
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Chapter 8 - Serendipity
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Chapter 9 - Taping Day, Libertyville, Illinois
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Chapter 10 - Difficult Beginnings
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Chapter 11 - Nothing Left to Lose
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Chapter 12 - Random Acts of Passing
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Chapter 13 - The Case of the Disappearance of Aunt Laura
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Chapter 14 - Gens de Couleur Libre
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Chapter 15 - Leon Frederic, Light Enough to Fight
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Chapter 16 - The Vagaries of War
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Chapter 17 - California Dreaming
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Chapter 18 - Antebellum Love and Sex
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Chapter 19 - Interracial Marriage Hidden
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Chapter 20 - War's Aftermath
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Chapter 21 - Hiding in Plain Sight
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Chapter 22 - Keeping up Appearances
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Chapter 23 - The Mystery of the Two Felicites and the Burden of Proof
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Chapter 24 - Modeling Whiteness
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Chapter 25 - Marta
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Chapter 26 - Breaking up is Hard to Do
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Chapter 27 - Who's Your Daddy?
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Chapter 28 - Luison Santilly: Metisse
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Chapter 29 - Going Public
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Chapter 30 - What We Talk about When We Talk about Race
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Chapter 31 - What We Talk about When We Talk about Passing
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Chapter 32 - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
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Chapter 33 - Lost Family Found
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Chapter 34 - Crossing Back Over
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Chapter 35 - Welcome to the Family
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Chapter 36 - Two Versions of One Family Story
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Chapter 37 - Union Station, Los Angeles, California
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