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Litigating Whiteness: Trials of Racial Determination in the Nineteenth-Century South
Resource ID: 10333
Type: journal article, article
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- American history, inherited trauma, racism, Black history, Indigenous history, mixed ancestry peoples, history, race+ethnicity, identity, regional
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1998
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pp. 109-188
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