{"id":57763,"date":"2019-09-26T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57763"},"modified":"2019-09-26T00:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T00:15:52","slug":"princess-of-the-hither-isles-a-black-suffragists-story-from-the-jim-crow-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57763","title":{"rendered":"Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist\u2019s Story from the Jim Crow South"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist\u2019s Story from the Jim Crow South<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Yale University Press<\/a>
\n2019-09-24
\n352 pages
\n6\u215b x 9\u00bc
\n9 b\/w illus.
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780300242607<\/p>\n

Adele Logan Alexander<\/strong>, Emeritus Professor of History
\nGeorge Washington University, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Born in the late nineteenth century into an affluent family of mixed race\u2014black, white, and Cherokee<\/a>\u2014Adella Hunt Logan<\/a> (1863\u20131915) was a key figure in the fight to obtain voting rights for women<\/a> of color. A professor at the Tuskegee Institute<\/a> in Alabama<\/a> and a close friend of Booker T. Washington<\/a>, Adella was in contact with luminaries such as Frederick Douglass<\/a>, George Washington Carver<\/a>, and W. E. B. Du Bois<\/a>. Despite her self-identification as an African American, she looked white and would often pass for white<\/a> at segregated suffrage<\/a> conferences, gaining access to information and political tactics used in the \u201cwhite world\u201d that might benefit her African American community.<\/p>\n

Written by Adella\u2019s granddaughter Adele Logan Alexander, this long-overdue consideration of Adella\u2019s pioneering work as a black suffragist is woven into a riveting multigenerational family saga and shines new light on the unresolved relationships between race, class, gender, and power in American society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born in the late nineteenth century into an affluent family of mixed race\u2014black, white, and Cherokee\u2014Adella Hunt Logan (1863\u20131915) was a key figure in the fight to obtain voting rights for women of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,6462,5113,20,25],"tags":[1633,16827,1424],"class_list":["post-57763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-triracial","category-usa","category-women","tag-adele-logan-alexander","tag-adella-hunt-logan","tag-yale-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57763","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=57763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58383,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57763\/revisions\/58383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}