Barack Obama’s historic presidency re-inserted "mixed race" into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, this book reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has prais…
"Barack Obama's historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, The United States of the United Races reconsiders an understudied optimist…
"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 …
Lost in the argument over the existence of a sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings are equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and socially, than most of us realise. The author seeks to uncover this complexity, as wel…
Lost in the argument over the existence of a sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings are equally urgent quesitons about a history that is more complex, both sexually and socially, than most of us realise. The author seeks to uncover this complexity, as wel…
This volume recreates the lives and identities of the children born of relationships between French men and African women in colonial French West Africa. It shows how colonial policies and attitudes influenced this population.
