Invisible History: Growing Up Colored in Cape Charles, Virginia

Invisible History: Growing Up Colored in Cape Charles, VirginiaThe book is a memoir about growing up Black in Cape Charles, Virginia on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. It details the origin of the town as a railroad terminus and connecting to ferry barges across the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk, through its golden age in the Jim Crow South and its decline with the ascendancy of automobiles and the building of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Its rise again as a tourist destination in the past decade and how

the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants

In the depths of a dungeon

and this book is written for everyone

But when her passport gets delayed

This book offers a reasonable response that pushes readers to account for and draw on the best of what we know

920 years and 12 arcs or constellations

fate versus free will

Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given and challenges the irreconcilable binaries that restrict them

learning his voice and his craft amidst deep trauma

and foreign travelers

Some writers

Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic