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What blood won't tell : a history of race on trial in America /

Gross, Ariela Julie.

What blood won't tell : a history of race on trial in America / Ariela J. Gross. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008. - x, 368 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The common sense of race -- Performing whiteness -- Race as association -- Citizenship of the "little races" -- Black Indian identity in the allotment era -- From nation to race in Hawai'i -- Racial science, immigration, and the "white races" -- Mexican Americans and the "Caucasian cloak".

9780674031302 (cloth : alk. paper)

2008011271


Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.
Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.


United States--Race relations.

305.800973 / G 878