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The United States of the United Races - A Utopian History of Racial Mixing (Hardcover, New)
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The United States of the United Races - A Utopian History of Racial Mixing (Hardcover, New)
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"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 deployed and destabilized racial categories."
--David Roediger, co-author of The Production of DifferenceBarack
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 and 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.Greg Carteris Assistant Professor of History at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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