Bøger af Earl Lewis

A modern Cinderella must defend her fairy-tale marriage in a scandal that rocked jazz-age America. When Alice Jones, a former domestic, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation-and forced the couple into an annulment trial.

Focusing on the city of Norfolk, Virginia, USA, this study describes how American blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious political inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to promote their own interests at home and in the workplace.