Allure of Blackness Among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916

In The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 18621916, 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 o...