White Enough to Be American: Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation
Publisher: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
Publication Website: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807858370/white-enough-to-be-american/
Coverage: 1v. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Additional Information: 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.