In this dual biography, Alexander (history, George Washington U.) tells the story of William Henry Hunt (d. 1951) and Ida Alexander Gibbs (1862-1957), who married in 1904. As they both had mixed-race
Written as a "reclamation" of a long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives is more than the story of one family--it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and g
Traces the rise of an African-American family from poverty to the middle class, drawing on academic archives and personal family papers to follow three generations of the Bond family over the course o
