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New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States (Revised) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807120354)
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xNew People is an insightful historical analysis of the miscegenation of American whites and blacks from colonial times to the present, of the "new people" produced by these interracial relationships, and of the myriad ways in which miscegenation has affected our national culture. Because the majority of American blacks are in fact of mixed ancestry, and because mulattoes and pure blacks ultimately combined their cultural heritages, what begins in the colonial period as mulatto history and culture ends in the twentieth century as black history and culture. Thus, understanding the history of the mulatto becomes one way of understanding something of the experience of the African American.
Williamson traces the fragile lines of color and caste that have separated mulattoes, blacks, and whites throughout history and speculates on the effect that the increasing ambiguity of those lines will have on the future of American society.Author: Joel Williamson
ISBN-10: 0807120359
ISBN-13: 9780807120354
Publisher: LSU Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1995
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.00w x 0.50d
By Joel Williamson
xJoel Williamson is Lineberger Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books, including After Slavery: The Negro In South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877; The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation; and William Faulkner and Southern History.
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