{"product_id":"the-house-at-the-end-w-ralph-eubanks-9781617030819","title":"The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South","description":"In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman, Edna Howell. It was 1914 in south Alabama. Together they eventually built a house at the dead end of a road in a rural black community. If you came there to do the Richardson family harm, you faced Jim Richardson's rule of justice, represented by a double-barreled shotgun. And at the end of the road, there was only one way out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South\u003c\/i\u003e examines how one pioneering interracial couple developed a love and a racial identity that carried them defiantly through the Jim Crow years. Through interviews and oral history collected from both sides of the Richardson family's racial divide, as well as archival research, \u003ci\u003eThe House at the End of the Road\u003c\/i\u003e probes into the core of the issue of race in early twentieth-century America. At the same time, it takes the lessons of the past and places them under the scrutiny of a contemporary world adjusted to DNA ancestry testing, a more flexible sense of racial and ethnic identity, and a tolerance and acceptance of the racial ambiguity that laws prohibiting Jim and Edna Richardson's marriage sought to eliminate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jim and Edna Richardson were Ralph Eubanks's grandparents. Now, decades after interracial marriage became legal, Eubanks takes readers on a journey back to his grandparents' house at the end of the road where he reconstructs their life and times and seeks lessons for America's multiracial future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. Ralph Eubanks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1617030813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781617030819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"W. Ralph Eubanks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991718428927,"sku":"9781617030819","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_87138b26-f525-4ed6-af7b-c506f26d44b2.jpg?v=1683311826","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-house-at-the-end-w-ralph-eubanks-9781617030819","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}