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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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The rise of hypodescent in seventeenth-century English America -- Children of mixed lineage in the colonial Chesapeake -- Mulattoes and Mustees in the northern colonies and Carolinas -- Mixed-heritage identities in the eighteenth century -- Mulatto marriages, partnerships, and intimate connections -- The advantages and disadvantages of blended ancestry. |
| Summary |
"Using archival records from the colonies where intermixture was most common in North America, and records from English colonies in the Caribbean, Wilkinson is able to follow the stories of those identified as 'mixed blood,' highlighting those people caught between monoracial categories. Wilkinson shows how the position of 'mixed people' complicated colonial systems of servitude and slavery, and that the struggle for freedom by people of blended ancestry and their families prevented colonial elites from firmly establishing a concrete socioracial order. He argues that there is a better framework than the one-drop rule for understanding early mixed-race ideologies in the English colonies. He uses the term hypodescent, indicating how a person of mixed ethnoracial ancestry is often associated with their socially inferior lineage, yet their legal or socioracial status may be elevated based on their proximity to European heritage or racial whiteness. This book combines intellectual, social, and cultural history to show how the complicated socioracial order in the colonies never fit neatly with a legal status of either bound or free"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- History.
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Racially mixed people. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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United States -- Race relations -- History.
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Race relations. |
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United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. |
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1600-1775 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781469658988 1469658984 9781469658995 1469658992 (DLC) 2020004240 (OCoLC)1140351991 |
| ISBN |
9781469659015 (electronic book) |
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1469659018 (electronic book) |
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9781469659008 (electronic book) |
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146965900X (electronic book) |
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9781469658988 |
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1469658984 |
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9781469658995 |
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1469658992 |
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