School for Tricksters: A Novel in StoriesPosted in Books, History, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, Novels, Passing, United States on 2011-11-02 04:11Z by Steven |
School for Tricksters: A Novel in Stories
Texas A&M University Press Consortium (Southern Methodist University Press)
2011-01-11
248 pages
6×9
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87074-563-8
Chris Gavaler, Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
This is a novel in stories depicting radical incidents of racial crossing in the early twentieth century. The alternating chapters are closely based on two real-life students, Ivy Miller, a semi-orphaned white girl seeking a free education, and Sylvester Long, a black youth escaping the Jim Crow South. Both passed illegally as Indians while attending the U.S. government’s most prestigious Indian boarding school.