Daniel Brook is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and the Nation. His A History of Future Cities was longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize and selected as one of the ten best books of the year by the Washington Post.
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In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mi... SEE MORE