University of Georgia Press, 1995

Kent Anderson Leslie’s recent monograph, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege, contributes to a small but growing body of literature that addresses the experiences of racially mixed people in both the Old and New South. A group that seldom fit neatly into the South’s carefully delineated, bifurcated racial order, mixed-race individuals, as Leslie shows, at times successfully challenged and attempted to redefine racial categorization.