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008 160325s2016 nyu b 001 0beng
010 $a 2016007019
020 $a9780393239256 (hardcover)
020 $a039323925X (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)945730068
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050 00 $aE185.97.E46$bJ33 2016
082 00 $a306.3/62092$aB$223
100 1 $aJacoby, Karl,$d1965-
245 14 $aThe strange career of William Ellis :$bthe Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire /$cKarl Jacoby.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur. To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and scores of mines and haciendas in Mexico. But for all his obvious riches and his elegant appearance, Eliseo was also the possessor of a devastating secret: he was not, in fact, from Mexico at all. Rather, he had begun life as a slave named William Ellis, born on a cotton plantation in southern Texas during the waning years of King Cotton. After emancipation, Ellis, capitalizing on the Spanish he learned during his childhood along the Mexican border and his ambivalent appearance, engaged in a virtuoso act of reinvention. He crafted an alter ego, the Mexican Guillermo Eliseo, who was able to access many of the privileges denied to African Americans at the time: traveling in first-class train berths, staying in upscale hotels, and eating in the finest restaurants. The Strange Career of William Ellis reads like a novel but offers fresh insights on the history of the Reconstruction era, the US-Mexico border, and the abiding riddle of race. At a moment when the United States is deepening its connections with Latin America and recognizing that race is more than simply black or white, Ellis's story could not be more timely or important"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: Through history's cracks -- Part I. Victoria -- Gone to Texas -- Juneteenth -- Part II. San Antonio/Tlahualilo -- Military Plaza -- The land of God and liberty -- Part III. Manhattan/Mexico City -- A picturesque figure -- The city of happy homes -- Epilogue: Trickster makes this world -- Afterword.
600 10 $aEllis, William Henry,$d1864-1923.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$vBiography.
650 0 $aSlaves$zTexas$vBiography.
650 0 $aBusinessmen$zMexico$vBiography.
650 0 $aMillionaires$zMexico$vBiography.
651 0 $aMexican-American Border Region$vBiography.
650 0 $aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)$vBiography.
650 0 $aPassing (Identity)$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zTexas$xPolitics and government.
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