White enough to be American? : race mixing, indigenous people, and the boundaries of state and nation
- Lauren L. Basson.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
- Physical description
- xiv, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Law Library (Crown)
E99 .M693 B37 2008
- Unknown E99 .M693 B37 2008
- Basson, Lauren L.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. -226) and index.
- "Mixed blood" Americans : the Jane Waldron and Barney Traversee allotment disputes
- Métis Americans : Louis Riel and the Northwest territories
- Annexed Americans : Robert Wilcox, home rule, and self-government for Hawaii
- Anarchist Americans : Lucy Parsons, foreign bodies, and American soil.
- Publisher's Summary
- This title presents disrupting notions of race and citizenship. Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as it exposed and disrupted the racial categories that organized political and social life in the United States. Offering a provocative conceptual approach to the study of citizenship, nationhood, and race, Basson explores how racial mixture challenged and sometimes changed the boundaries that defined what it meant to be American.Drawing on government documents, press coverage, and firsthand accounts, Basson presents four fascinating case studies concerning indigenous people of "mixed" descent. She reveals how the ambiguous status of racially mixed people underscored the problematic nature of policies and practices based on clearly defined racial boundaries. Contributing to timely discussions about race, ethnicity, citizenship, and nationhood, Basson demonstrates how the challenges to the American political and legal systems posed by racial mixture helped lead to a new definition of what it meant to be American - one that relied on institutions of private property and white supremacy.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Indians of North America > Mixed descent > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
- Racially mixed people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
- Racially mixed people > Legal status, laws, etc. > Hawaii > History.
- Hawaiians > Government relations > History.
- Indigenous peoples > Land tenure > United States > History.
- Miscegenation > Political aspects > United States > History.
- United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History.
- European Americans > Attitudes > History.
- Citizenship > United States > History.
- Nationalism > United States > History.
- Publication date
- 9780807831434 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807831433 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780807858370 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807858374 (pbk. : alk. paper)