![]() Claudio Saunt's sensitive and daring recovery of the Grayson's centuries-long struggle to navigate the perilous racial triangle of Black, white, and Indian is at once irresistible and heartbreaking. ![]() But few such histories-once those silences grow full with stories-speak so directly to the central sorrows in American society, past and present, as that of the Grayson family. "All histories, especially family histories, harbor silences wherein uneasy truths reside."A fascinating look at a seldom-recognized aspect of American race relations."- Booklist."To judge from the frosty reception Saunt received from some of Robert Grierson's descendants while researching this excellent and absorbing book, race is something they still don't much like talking about."- Times Literary Supplement.Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Healthīlack, White, and Indian Race and the Unmaking of an American Family Claudio Saunt.The European Society of Cardiology Series. ![]() ![]()
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