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Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy  Cover Image Book Book

Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy / Edward Ball.

Ball, Edward, 1958- (author.).

Summary:

"An examination of the history of the author's family and its ties to white supremacist movements."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374186326 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 395 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Our Klansman -- The Ku-Klux act -- Grands blancs / Big whites -- Tribes -- Introduction to an atrocity -- White terror -- Petits blancs / Little whites -- Redemption.
Subject: Lecorgne, Constant, 1832-1886.
Lecorgne family.
Ku Klux KLan > Biography.
White League (La.) > Biography.
Creoles > Louisiana > History > 19th century.
Racism > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Louisiana > New Orleans.
White supremacy movements > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Biography.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > 19th century.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Innisfil Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch 305.800976335 Lecor-B 31681010219095 NONFIC Available -

Edward Ball's previous books include The Inventor and the Tycoon, about the birth of moving pictures in California, and Slaves in the Family, an account of his family’s history as slaveholders in South Carolina, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has taught at Yale University and has been awarded fellowships by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. He is also the recipient of a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.


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