Historians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post-Civil War America were reflected in the U.S. Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were fore

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In this book Maria Root uses her multiracial experience to challenge current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race, and redefine the way race and

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The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. This work challenges that view in a chronicle that