The United States of the United Races - by Greg Carter (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Barack Obama's historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, <em>The United States of the United Races</em> reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. In this genealogy, Greg Carter re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America. Tracing the centuries-long conversation that began with Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's <em>Letters of an American Farmer</em> in the 1780s through to the Mulitracial Movement of the 1990s and the debates surrounding racial categories on the U.S. Census in the twenty-first century, Greg Carter explores a broad range of documents and moments, unearthing a new narrative that locates hope in racial mixture. Carter traces the reception of the concept as it has evolved over the years, from and decade to decade and century to century, wherein even minor changes in individual attitudes have paved the way for major changes in public response. <em>The United States of the United Races</em> sweeps away an ugly element of U.S. history, replacing it with a new understanding of race in America.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Because Carter highlights both positive and negative assumptions of race mixture, the book often challenges and troubles conventional understandings of such key figures as Thomas Jefferson and Frederick Douglass, highlighting both mens personal relationships with women that challenged societal norms of the day.-- "Journal of American Culture"<br><br>This provocative, ambitious, and important book rewrites U.S. history, placing foundational leaders, unheralded prophets, insurgent social movements, pivotal judicial decisions, and central cultural values within an unfolding story of ongoing appeals to interracialmixing as a positive good. Deeply researched, deftly argued, and impressively able to move beyond the two categories of black and white, The United States of the United Races makes the mixed race movements of the recent past resonate with their many antecedents, showing the complex ways in which an emphasis on mixture has both deployed and destabilized racial categories.--David Roediger, co-author of The Production of Difference<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Greg Carter</strong> is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.</p>
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