Flight Paperback - 1998
by Walter White
Published amid controversy in 1926, FLIGHT focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a New Orleans creole who, for a time, passes as white. An unexpected pregnancy causes Mimi to abandon her prosperous family and move to Harlem. Racial attitudes of the times--by both whites and blacks--are compellingly portrayed by author Walter White (1893-1955), a blond-haired, blue-eyed black man and NAACP activist.
About this book
From the rear cover
Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned Negro 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 black bourgeois society because of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, to her working-class status in Philadelphia and Harlem, Mimi eventually decides to escape her miseries by passing for white in New York City. There, her success exceeds her expectations but even so cannot quell a recurrent yearning.
First Edition Identification
The novel Flight by Walter White was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926.
Details
- Title Flight
- Author Walter White
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher LSU Press
- Date 1998-04-01
- ISBN 9780807122808 / 0807122807
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.5 x 0.62 in (21.64 x 13.97 x 1.57 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, New York (N.Y.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97049988
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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