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Title: Race and Kinship in a Midwestern Town: The Black Experience in Monroe, Michigan, 1900-1915 (Blacks in the New World) by James E. Devries ISBN: 0-252-01084-1 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 1984 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: The research is good; the personal comments are not.
Comment: This book would be exellent if DeVries could accept the fact that his own research contradicts his "racial" views.
DeVries plainly states that the white community of Monroe, Michigan accepted the mobility of part-black whites into the white community. This again contradicts the "passing" myth. DeVries, however, is too much of a "liberal" racist to admit that and offend black elites. He even goes so far as to suggest that the white community of Monroe was "racist" for accepting part- black whites into the white community. Damned if you do and damned if you don't!
A quote from the book: "Crossing over was not the silent mechanism that some historians have indicated. It involved not only racial heritage but, ironically, family and personal identity. Could an individual known to have an African ancestry be regarded and defined as white? Yes, the interracial backgrounds and unions off the Fosters and Duncansons were matters of public knowledge. Each of the families had a long, continuous heritage in Monroe, and descendants residing in the community today beat no stigma of race and are generally viewed as Caucasian." (P. 150)
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