Michael O’Malley explores how scientific biology informs the arbitrariness of ‘racecraft’ found in family records
The Color of Family: History, Race and the Politics of Ancestry: Academic page-turner decodes US administrative racism
The Color of Family is that rarity, an academic page-turner, as O’Malley attempts to track his forebears and other cases to make sense of the egregious administrative racism which, under the guise of scientific biology, informs much of the arbitrariness of “racecraft” found in family records in the By the time the certificate was updated and reiterated under the watchful eye of the Virginia state registrar, the eugenicist Dr Walter Plecker, in 1940, “one drop” of coloured blood going back generations was enough under racist laws to disqualify “coloureds” from marriage to whites, college entry or risking other serious offences drawing one to two years in the penitentiary.
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