Free Download The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies) by Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly
English | October 1, 2019 | ISBN: 1496205073 | True EPUB | 318 pages | 4.15 MB
In The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916, Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly examines generations of mixed-race African Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era, skillfully tracking the rise of a leadership class in Black America made up largely of individuals who had complex racial ancestries, many of whom therefore enjoyed racial options to identity as either Black or White. Although these people might have chosen to pass as White to avoid the racial violence and exclusion associated with the dominant racial ideology of the time, they instead chose to identify as Black Americans, a decision that provided upward mobility in social, political, and economic terms.