Almost White

By Brewton Berry,

Book cover of Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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This pioneering 1963 classic is the first book I ever read that describes some of the 200 groups of “mestizos” (Berry’s term) living in the eastern United States, with names like the Brass Ankles, the Red Bones, the Melungeons, the Lumbees. It prodded me to start thinking about the whole issue of race and how it is constructed – and what happens to the “marginal” people (another Berry term) who don’t fit into the rigid categories of African, European, Asian, or Native American. 

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