{"id":50679,"date":"2016-12-16T00:50:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T00:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50679"},"modified":"2016-12-16T00:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T00:50:54","slug":"that-the-blood-stay-pure-african-americans-native-americans-and-the-predicament-of-race-and-identity-in-virginia-smithers-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50679","title":{"rendered":"That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia [Smithers Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/jahist\/jaw364\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia [Smithers Review]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of American History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/103\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016<\/a><br \/>\npages 742-743<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/jahist\/jaw364\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/jahist\/jaw364<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36428\" target=\"_blank\"><em>That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia<\/em> <\/a>By <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alcphd\" target=\"_blank\">Arica L. Coleman<\/a>. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xxiv, 300 pp. $45.00.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregorysmithers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gregory D. Smithers<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Virginia Commonwealth University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Few Virginians have negatively affected the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Old Dominion<\/a> more than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\">Walter Ashby Plecker<\/a>. In his role as registrar of Virginia&#8217;s Bureau of Vital Statistics, a position he held from 1912 to 1946, Plecker oversaw a campaign to preserve the racial \u201cpurity\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia&#8217;s<\/a> white population and divide African Americans, Native Americans, and Caucasians along a black-white binary. To that end, Plecker was not only evangelical in his calls for the separation of the races but was also one of the founding members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anglo-Saxon_Clubs_of_America\" target=\"_blank\">Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America<\/a> and, with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Powell_(musician)\" target=\"_blank\">John Powell <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earnest_Sevier_Cox\" target=\"_blank\">Earnest Sevier Cox<\/a>, played a pivotal role&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the review <a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/103\/3\/742.2.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia [Smithers Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 742-743 DOI: 10.1093\/jahist\/jaw364 That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia By Arica L. 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