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What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America
Ariela J. Gross
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| #1150848 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2010-05-01 | 2010-04-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.30 x.99 x6.26l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 384 pages | ||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Incredibly valuable history of race in multiracial America|By michiganreader|Everyone interested in race, US legal history, citizenship, or immigration should read this book. It manages to combine close readings of freedom trials in the antebellum US, naturalization cases at the turn of the century, battles over the "freedmen," or members of African descent, of the Cherokee, S|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Through a close reading of racial identity trials in America, this book offers an eloquent contribution to ongoing debates over affirmative action, identity politics and the construction of a colorblind society. Historian Gross
Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them. When she sued for her freedom, witnesses assured the jury that she was white, and that they would have known if she had a drop of African blood. Morrison’s court trial―and many others over the la...
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