| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

A Southern Family in White & Black: The Cuneys of Texas. By Douglas Hales. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. xiv, 178 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-200-3.)

Douglas Hales has written a very interesting monograph about the Cuney family of Texas. Although his narrative is focused more toward the African American descendants of the Texas slaveholder Philip Cuney, it is still a very informative and powerful account of how miscegenation affected one family in the antebellum and post-Reconstruction periods in American history. Indeed, after the first chapter the white Cuneys disappear from the narrative, and Norris Wright Cuney and his daughter, Maud Cuney-Hare, become the central focus of the book. Hales's focus is very justifiable. Norris Wright Cuney was one of the most important African American politicians in the South from Reconstruction to the end of the nineteenth century. His daughter, Maud, was an important author and musician who contributed much to the interpretation and understanding of early-twentieth-century African American culture. She also wrote an important biography of her father. As Hales has presented their lives, it is clear that both more than deserve an extensive analysis of how and why they became so successful.

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