{"id":46457,"date":"2016-04-03T02:13:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T02:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46457"},"modified":"2016-04-03T02:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T02:13:22","slug":"the-black-calhouns-by-gail-lumet-buckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46457","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Black Calhouns,\u2019 by Gail Lumet Buckley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018The Black Calhouns,\u2019 by Gail Lumet Buckley<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Book Review<\/a>
\nThe New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-03-16<\/p>\n

Patricia J. Williams<\/a><\/strong>, James L. Dohr Professor of Law
\nColumbia University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

THE BLACK CALHOUNS<\/strong><\/a>
\n From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family<\/strong><\/a>
\nBy Gail Lumet Buckley<\/a>
\nIllustrated. 353 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $26.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Black Calhouns<\/a>,\u201d Gail Lumet Buckley<\/a> displays a particularly panoramic view of American society. Daughter of the legendary entertainer Lena Horne<\/a>, she was raised among show-business royalty. But as the descendant of a privileged and lucky line of well-educated African-American professionals, she also grew up related to or knowing nearly every major figure in the movements for racial, gender and economic equality, from Reconstruction<\/a> onward.<\/p>\n

The name \u201cCalhoun\u201d is mostly remembered today in association with our ardently secessionist seventh vice president, John C. Calhoun<\/a>, a fiery orator who fashioned his conviction that slavery was a \u201cpositive good\u201d into the ideology of states\u2019 rights. His nephew was Andrew Bonaparte Calhoun, a wealthy doctor who owned the slaves whose descendants include Buckley\u2019s and Horne\u2019s maternal line. This link between history\u2019s white founding fathers and the slave families who carried their names into freedom is a story with which most African-Americans are all too familiar, but one that has remained remarkably suppressed as a matter of general public knowledge. Only in recent years have some stories come to light, such as Annette Gordon-Reed\u2019s<\/a> excavation of Sally Hemings\u2019s genealogy<\/a> and Essie Mae Washington-Williams\u2019s<\/a> revelation that Strom Thurmond fathered her<\/a> by a black family maid…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018The Black Calhouns,\u2019 by Gail Lumet Buckley Book Review The New York Times 2016-03-16 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York THE BLACK CALHOUNS From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family By Gail Lumet Buckley Illustrated. 353 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $26. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,8,20],"tags":[23425,23422,2640,3058,3411,2327],"class_list":["post-46457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-gail-buckley","tag-gail-lumet-buckley","tag-new-york-times","tag-patricia-j-williams","tag-patricia-williams","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46459,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46457\/revisions\/46459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}