Flight

by Walter Francis White

Book Overview

Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, as white. In the New Orleans of her birth, Mimi never encountered the hierarchies of skin color that existed elsewhere. But when her family moves to Atlanta, she embarks on a lifelong lesson about what it really means to belong to a people. From the Atlanta riot of 1906 to her shameful expulsion from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807122807
• ISBN13: 9780807122808
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"