The Clamorgans: One Family's History of Race in America

The Damning, Absurd, and Revelatory History of Race in America Told through the History of a Single Family

Historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans to chronicle how one family navigated race in America from the 1780s through the 1950s. What she discovers overturns decades of received academic wisdom. Far from an impermeable wall fixed by whites, race opened up a moral gray zone that enterprising blacks manipulated to whatever advanta...