{"product_id":"a-refugee-from-his-race-carolyn-l-karcher-9781469627953","title":"A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourg馥 and His Fight against White Supremacy","description":"During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as \"one of the best friends of the Afro-American people this country has ever produced\" and reviled by white Southerners as a race traitor, Tourgee offers an ideal lens through which to reexamine the often caricatured relations between progressive whites and African Americans. He collaborated closely with African Americans in founding an interracial civil rights organization eighteen years before the inception of the NAACP, in campaigning against lynching alongside Ida B. Wells and \u003ci\u003eCleveland Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e editor Harry C. Smith, and in challenging the ideology of segregation as lead counsel for people of color in the 1896 \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e case. Here, Carolyn L. Karcher provides the first in-depth account of this collaboration. Drawing on Tourgee's vast correspondence with African American intellectuals, activists, and ordinary folk, on African American newspapers and on his newspaper column, \"A Bystander's Notes,\" in which he quoted and replied to letters from his correspondents, the book also captures the lively dialogue about race that Tourgee and his contemporaries carried on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn L. Karcher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469627957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469627953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2016 pg. 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016","brand":"Carolyn L. Karcher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935450235135,"sku":"9781469627953","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_caee616e-490f-4d31-b6c2-f59432cf5d23.jpg?v=1681419869","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-refugee-from-his-race-carolyn-l-karcher-9781469627953","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}