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White Enough to Be American?

其他書名	Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation
出版	University of North Carolina Press, 2012
ISBN	9798890880840
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nXNT0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋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. Drawing on government documents, press coverage, and firsthand accounts, Basson presents four fascinating case.