{"id":62891,"date":"2022-02-09T02:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62891"},"modified":"2022-02-09T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T02:55:11","slug":"white-lies-the-double-life-of-walter-f-white-and-americas-darkest-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62891","title":{"rendered":"White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mariner Books<\/a>
\n2022-02-08
\n400 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0358447757
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0358581772
\neBook ISBN: 9780358439660
\nAudiobook ISBN: 9780358581932<\/p>\n

A. J. Baime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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A riveting biography of Walter F. White<\/a>, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white<\/a> in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP<\/a> on the map, and change the racial identity of America<\/a> forever<\/p>\n

Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance<\/a> and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching<\/a> crimes in the Deep South<\/a> at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to \u201cpass\u201d for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the seeds of the civil rights movement. White\u2019s risky career led him to lead a double life. He was simultaneously a second-class citizen subject to Jim Crow laws<\/a> at home and a widely respected professional with full access to the white world at work. His life was fraught with internal and external conflict\u2014much like the story of race in America. Starting out as an obscure activist, White ultimately became Black America\u2019s most prominent leader. A character study of White\u2019s life and career with all these complexities has never been rendered, until now.<\/p>\n

By the award-winning, best-selling author of The Accidental President, Dewey Defeats Truman<\/em>, and The Arsenal of Democracy<\/em>, White Lies<\/em> uncovers the life of a civil rights leader unlike any other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A riveting biography of Walter F. White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,5,459,8,17,6462,23674,20],"tags":[32839,1134,899,2708,28260,6786,1929],"class_list":["post-62891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-a-j-baime","tag-mariner-books","tag-naacp","tag-national-association-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people","tag-walter-f-white","tag-walter-francis-white","tag-walter-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62891","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=62891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62892,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62891\/revisions\/62892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}