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The House at the End of the Road
W. Ralph Eubanks
The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
Harper
May 2009
On Sale: May 19, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 006137573X
EAN: 9780061375736
Hardcover
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A powerful story about race and identity told through the
lives of one American family across three generations In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family,
a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a
light-skinned black woman named Edna Howell. Over more than
twenty years of marriage, they formed a strong family and
built a house at the end of a winding sandy road in South
Alabama, a place where their safety from the hostile world
around them was assured, and where they developed a unique
racial and cultural identity. Jim and Edna Richardson were
Ralph Eubanks's grandparents. Part personal journey, part cultural biography, The House
at the End of the Road examines a little-known piece of
this country's past: interracial families that survived and
prevailed despite Jim Crow laws, including those
prohibiting mixed-race marriage. As he did in his acclaimed
2003 memoir, Ever Is a Long Time, Eubanks uses interviews,
oral history, and archival research to tell a story about
race in American life that few readers have experienced.
Using the Richardson family as a microcosm of American
views on race and identity, The House at the End of the
Road examines why ideas about racial identity rooted in the
eighteenth century persist today. In lyrical, evocative
prose, this extraordinary book pierces the heart of issues
of race and racial identity, leaving us ultimately hopeful
about the world as our children might see it.
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