{"id":46774,"date":"2016-05-09T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T01:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46774"},"modified":"2016-05-09T01:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T01:03:21","slug":"a-refugee-from-his-race-albion-w-tourgee-and-his-fight-against-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46774","title":{"rendered":"A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourg\u00e9e and His Fight against White Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourg\u00e9e and His Fight against White Supremacy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of North Carolina Press<\/a>
\n2016-05-02
\n464 pages
\n9 halftones, notes, bibl., index
\n6.125 x 9.25
\nPaper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2795-3<\/p>\n

Carolyn L. Karcher<\/strong><\/p>\n

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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. Tourg\u00e9e<\/a> (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, Tourg\u00e9e 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<\/a>, in campaigning against lynching<\/a> alongside Ida B. Wells<\/a> and Cleveland Gazette<\/em><\/a> editor Harry C. Smith, and in challenging the ideology of segregation as lead counsel for people of color in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em><\/a> case. Here, Carolyn L. Karcher provides the first in-depth account of this collaboration. Drawing on Tourg\u00e9e\u2019s vast correspondence with African American intellectuals, activists, and ordinary folk, on African American newspapers and on his newspaper column, \u201cA Bystander\u2019s Notes,\u201d in which he quoted and replied to letters from his correspondents, the book also captures the lively dialogue about race that Tourg\u00e9e and his contemporaries carried on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourg\u00e9e and His Fight against White Supremacy University of North Carolina Press 2016-05-02 464 pages 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2795-3 Carolyn L. Karcher During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,20],"tags":[23683,23682,23681,23680,579,667],"class_list":["post-46774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-albion-tourgee","tag-albion-w-tourgee","tag-carolyn-karcher","tag-carolyn-l-karcher","tag-plessy-v-ferguson","tag-university-of-north-carolina-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46774","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=46774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46825,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46774\/revisions\/46825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}