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Book SynopsisRe-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America
Trade Review"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 interracialmixing 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 deployed and destabilized racial categories." -- David Roediger,co-author of The Production of Difference
"Because Carter highlights both positive and negative assumptions of race mixture, the book often challenges and troubles conventional understandings of such key figures as Thomas Jefferson and Frederick Douglass, highlighting both mens personal relationships with women that challenged societal norms of the day." * Journal of American Culture *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 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 Stomach5 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 About the Author
