Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America

by Paul Spickard

Book Overview

'Paul R. Spickard has performed a tremendous service to historians and other students of ethnicity in writing this study of the historic patterns and changing meanings of out-group marriage. -Hasia R. Diner American Historical Review

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299121100
• ISBN13: 9780299121105
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 532 Pages

Customer Reviews

a new understanding of ethnic identity

This book addresses the problem of "race" and ethnic identity for bi-ethnic people. The author focuses on mixed race among Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans and Black Americans, as well as the phenomenon of intermarriage in the military. For each group, he takes an historical approach of traditional ideas about miscegenation in each group, and then follows through with examples of intermarriage in each group and the reactions on behalf of each group involved. The approach is a mix of history, sociology and ethnic studies. Although limited to only three groups among which racial mixing has occurred, each study is quite weighty and comprehensive.