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A spell-binding exploration of mixed-race Charlestonians and New Orleanians who... built complex lives across the color line.... Heartbreaking but also vividly alive, The Accident of Color... portrays the many ways people struggled for the right to define themselves in a time of hardening racial lines. A lovely, necessary book. -- Gregory P. Downs, professor of history, University of California, Davis, and author of The Second American Revolution

"""A spell-binding exploration of mixed-race Charlestonians and New Orleanians who… built complex lives across the color line.… Heartbreaking but also vividly alive, The Accident of Color… portrays the many ways people struggled for the right to define themselves in a time of hardening racial lines. A lovely, necessary book."" -- Gregory P. Downs, professor of history, University of California, Davis, and author of The Second American Revolution"

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Daniel Brook is a journalist whose writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the Nation, and the New York Times Magazine and the author of several books, including A History of Future Cities. A New York native and a Yale graduate, Brook lives in New Orleans. He researched The Einstein of Sex in Berlin on a Robert and Ina Caro Research/Travel Fellowship.

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