TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Greg
TI  - The United States of the united races: a utopian history of racial mixing 
SN  - 9780814772492
AV  - E184.A1 C337 2013
U1  - 305.800973 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Racially mixed people
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Miscegenation
KW  - Post-racialism
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Rassenvermenging
KW  - gtt
KW  - Mischling
KW  - gnd
KW  - Ethnische Beziehung
KW  - Verenigde Staten
KW  - USA
KW  - Geschiedenis (vorm)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Thomas Jefferson's challengers -- Wendell Phillips, unapologetic abolitionist, unreformed amalgamationist -- Plessy v. racism -- The color line, the melting pot, and the stomach -- Say it loud, I'm one drop and I'm proud -- The end of race as we know it -- Praising ambiguity, preferring certainty
N2  - "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 tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. In this genealogy, Greg Carter re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America. Tracing the centuries-long conversation that began with Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Letters of an American Farmer in the 1780s through to the Mulitracial Movement of the 1990s and the debates surrounding racial categories on the U.S. Census in the twenty-first century, Greg Carter explores a broad range of documents and moments, unearthing a new narrative that locates hope in racial mixture. Carter traces the reception of the concept as it has evolved over the years, from decade to decade and century to century, wherein even minor changes in individual attitudes have paved the way for major changes in public response. The United States of the United Races sweeps away an ugly element of U.S. history, replacing it with a new understanding of race in America."--Publisher information
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