What blood won't tell : a history of race on trial in America / Ariela J. Gross.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2008.

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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Minorities -- United States -- Legal status, laws, etc.

United States -- Race relations.

1. The common sense of race

2. Performing whiteness

3. Race as association

4. Citizenship of the little races

5. Black Indian identity in the allotment era

6. From nation to race in Hawai'i

7. Racial science, immigration, and the white races

8. Mexican Americans and the Caucasian cloak.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780674047983

x, 368 p. ; 24 cm