The Color Factor

The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South

AvHoward Bodenhorn

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

South Carolina's Indian-American governor Nikki Haley recently dismissed one of her principal advisors when his membership to the ultra-conservative Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) came to light. Among the CCC's many concerns is intermarriage and race mixing. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in 2001 the CCC website included a message that read "God is the one who divided mankind into different races.... Mixing the races is rebelliousness against God. " Beyond the irony of a CCC member working for an Indian-American, the episode reveals America's continuing struggle with race, racial integration, and race mixing.The Color Factor shows that the emergent twenty-first-century recognition of race mixing and the relative advantages of light-skinned, mixed-race people represents a "back to the future " moment---a re-emergence of one salient feature of race in America that dates to its founding. Each chapter addresses from a historical perspective a topic in the current literature on mixed-race and color. The approach is economic and empirical, but the text is accessible to social scientists more generally. The historical evidence concludes that we will not really understand race until we understand how American attitudes toward race were shaped by race mixing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-06-25
Mått:234 x 160 x 25 mm
Vikt:723 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Academic
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199383092

Utforska kategorier

Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Howard Bodenhorn is Professor of Economics at Clemson University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has published widely on several issues in economic history, including banking and financial markets, the economics of race and identity, and the economics of crime. He has received several awards and grants from the National Science Foundation, and the Earhart, the Ewing Marion Kauffman, and the John Simon Guggenheim foundations.

Recensioner i media

In The Color Factor, Howard Bodenhorn provides a quite detailed examination of free black registers, tax records, and other primary and secondary sources for Maryland and Virginia in order to cast important new light on the still not fully understood aspects of the economic, social, and health differences between those considered to be mulatto and those regarded as black. This issue is not only of importance for historical studies but has significance for understanding the African-American community today.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; Chapter 1: Legal constructions of race and interpretations of color ; Chapter 2: Race mixing and color in literature and science ; Chapter 3: The plantation ; Chapter 4: Finding freedom ; Chapter 5: Marriage and the family ; Chapter 6: Work ; Chapter 7: Wealth ; Chapter 8: Height, health and mortality