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Introduction: Reading Miscegenation
1 In the journalistic arena, examples include a full issue of Newsweek
devoted to “Redefining Race in America”; such newspaper articles
as Vanessa E. Jones, “A Rich Sense of Self”; and Lisa Jones, “Are We
Tiger Woods Yet?” Lisa Jones makes the point that the “Tiger Woods
phenomenon” can be characterized more as “image equity”—a cor-
porate-sponsored “illusion of change”—than any representation of
substantive social progress. In terms of literary illustrations of a re-
newed focus on interracialism, see James McBride, The Color of
Water; Danzy Senna, Caucasia; Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, The Sweeter the
Juice; Lise Funderburg, Black, White, Other.
2 The decision to allow respondents to check off more than one box
was a compromise reached after the idea of including a “multiracial”
category met with vociferous resistance from various constituencies.
The result meant that, from a governmental standpoint at least, mul-
tiracial people did not exist. See Tatsha Robertson, “Minorities Fear
Census Falls Short”; Cindy Rodriguez, “Civil Rights Groups Wary
of Census Data on Race. ” See also Sarah Chinn's excellent discussion
of this controversy in Technology and the Logic of American Racism.
3 The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state, al-
lowed for popular sovereignty when the Utah and New Mexico
territories applied for statehood, enacted the infamous fugitive slave
law of 1850, and abolished the slave trade in the District of Colum-
bia. See Michael F. Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s, 68.
4 Margo J. Anderson, The American Census. See also Margo J. Anderson
and Stephen E. Fienberg, eds., Who Counts? 20–23.
5 Qtd. in Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny, 282.
6 See Elise Lemire, “Miscegenation. ” Lemire argues that “'amalgama-
tion' and 'miscegenation' were terms that did the work of enforcing
the prohibition against certain marriages, such that social and eco-
nomic equality would not follow the granting of any black political
rights, and thereby making whiteness a category of people with cer-
tain sexual race preferences, all without seeming prejudicial due to
the insistence implicit in the terms on [ sic ] the biological real” (4).

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