The United States of the United Races A Utopian History of Racial Mixing

Summary: "This provocative, ambitious, and important book rewrites U.S. history, placing foundational leaders, unheralded prophets, insurgent social movements, pivotal judicial decisions, and central cultural values within an unfolding story of ongoing appeals to interracial mixing as a positive good. Deeply researched, deftly argued, and impressively able to move beyond the two categories of black and white, The United States of the United Races makes the mixed race movements of the recent past resonate with their many antecedents, showing the complex ways in which an emphasis on mixture has both depl.

Record details

ISBN: 0814790488 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780814790489 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)
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electronic resource
Publisher: New York : NYU Press, 2013.

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General Note:	Description based upon print version of record. Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Thomas Jefferson's Challengers; 2 Wendell Phillips, Unapologetic Abolitionist, Unreformed Amalgamationist; 3 Plessy v. Racism; 4 The Color Line, the Melting Pot, and the Stomach; 5 Say It Loud, I'm One Drop and I'm Proud; 6 The End of Race as We Know It; 7 Praising Ambiguity, Preferring Certainty; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; About the Author
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