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What Blood Won't Tell : A History of Race on Trial in America / Ariela J. Gross.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674031302
  • 9780674037977
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.800973
LOC classification:
  • KF4755 -- G76 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- ONE. The Common Sense of Race -- TWO. Performing Whiteness -- THREE. Race as Association -- FOUR. Citizenship of the "Little Races" -- FIVE. Black Indian Identity in the Allotment Era -- SIX. From Nation to Race in Hawai'i -- SEVEN. Racial Science, Immigration, and the "White Races" -- EIGHT. Mexican Americans and the "Caucasian Cloak" -- Conclusion: The Common Sense of Race Today -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Gross's book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674037977

Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- ONE. The Common Sense of Race -- TWO. Performing Whiteness -- THREE. Race as Association -- FOUR. Citizenship of the "Little Races" -- FIVE. Black Indian Identity in the Allotment Era -- SIX. From Nation to Race in Hawai'i -- SEVEN. Racial Science, Immigration, and the "White Races" -- EIGHT. Mexican Americans and the "Caucasian Cloak" -- Conclusion: The Common Sense of Race Today -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Gross's book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)