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Title: WHAT BLOOD WON'T TELL
A HISTORY OF RACE ON TRIAL IN AMERICA
By: Ariela Julie Gross
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0674047982
ISBN 13: 9780674047983
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Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 May, 2010
Pages: 384
Description: Unearthing legal history of racial identity, this book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society. It reminds us that the imaginary connection between racial identity and fitness for citizenship remains potent and continues to impede racial justice and equality.
Synopsis: 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 last 150 years - involved high stakes: freedom, property, and civil rights. And they all turned on the question of racial identity. Over the past two centuries, individuals and groups (among them Mexican Americans, Indians, Asian immigrants, and Melungeons) have fought to establish their whiteness in order to lay claim to full citizenship in local courtrooms, administrative and legislative hearings, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Like Morrison's case, these trials have often turned less on legal definitions of race as percentages of blood or ancestry than on the way people presented themselves to society and demonstrated their moral and civic character.Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Ariela Gross' book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society. This book reminds us that the imaginary connection between racial identity and fitness for citizenship remains potent today and continues to impede racial justice and equality.
Publication: US
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Prizes: Winner of James Willard Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association 2009 Winner of American Political Science Association: Race, Ethnicity and Winner of Lillian Smith Book Award 2009
Returns: Returnable
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