What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America by Ariela J. Gross

What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America

Ariela J. Gross

368 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that ...

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