The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America-Fast Shipping

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“An astonishingly detailed rendering of the variety and complexityof racial experience in an evolving national culture.”
–The New York Times Book Review

In the Obama era, as Americans confront the enduring significance ofrace and heritage, this multigenerational account of family secretspromises to spark debate across the country. Daniel J. Sharfstein’ssweeping history moves from eighteenth-century South Carolina totwentieth-century Washington, D.C., unraveling the stories of threefamilies who represent the complexity of race in America. Identifyingfirst as people of color and later as whites, the families provide alens through which to examine how people thought about and experiencedrace and how, for them and America, the very meanings of black andwhite changed. The Invisible Line cuts through centuries of mythto transform the way we see ourselves.