Georgetown Peabody Library

Defending Alice, a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties, Richard Stratton

Label
Defending Alice, a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties, Richard Stratton
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Defending Alice
Oclc number
1350487517
Responsibility statement
Richard Stratton
Sub title
a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties
Summary
In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."
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