Parallel worlds
Subtitle: the remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the enduring (in)significance of melanin
By: Adele Logan Alexander.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780813928876; 9780813929781
Subjects: Hunt, William Henry, -- d. 1951; Hunt, Ida Gibbs. -- 1862-1957; Hunt, William Henry, -- d. 1951 -- Travel; Hunt, Ida Gibbs. -- 1862-1957 -- Travel; African Americans -- Biography; Married people -- United States -- Biography; African American diplomats -- Biography; African American women civil rights workers -- Biography; African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies; Sex role -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Biography; Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Wedding album, Washington, D.C., 1904; title: pt. 1. Family portraits; title: The vice president's daughters; title: Mirror of the times : reflections on the lives of M.W. Gibbs; title: Ida Alexander Gibbs's Pictures from a well-spent youth; title: "From cabin to consulate" : Billy Hunt's memory book; title: pt. 2. Worlds apart; title: The Madagascar portfolio, 1898-1907 : colonials on the Great Red Island; title: France, 1907-1918 : la Ville Noire and la Guerre Mondiale; title: France, 1918-1927 : pan-Africanism and postwar consular life; title: Snapshots from Guadeloupe, 1927-1929; title: Odysseys through the Portuguese Atlantic, 1929-1931; title: Liberia, 1931-1932 : negative forces, forced labor, forced out; title: Fading images : Washington, D.C., 1932-1957; title: Epilogue: The Gibbs-Hunts' stories and mine.