{"id":61448,"date":"2021-09-12T21:54:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T21:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61448"},"modified":"2021-09-12T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T21:54:28","slug":"ingrid-dineen-wimberly-the-allure-of-blackness-among-mixed-race-americans-1862-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61448","title":{"rendered":"INGRID DINEEN-WIMBERLY. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862\u20131916."},"content":{"rendered":"

INGRID DINEEN-WIMBERLY. <\/strong><\/em>The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862\u20131916<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The American Historical Review<\/a>
\nVolume 126, Issue 2 (June 2021)<\/a>
\npages 797\u2013798
\nDOI: 10.1093\/ahr\/rhab307<\/a><\/p>\n

Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History
\nKent State University, Kent, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862\u20131916<\/em><\/a>. (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Pp. xxxi, 267.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why were so many African American leaders in the Reconstruction era<\/a> from mixed-race backgrounds? This is the question Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly\u2019s<\/a> The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862\u20131916<\/em><\/a> sets out to answer. Dineen-Wimberly\u2019s argument is encapsulated in her title, reflecting her contention that although many post\u2013Civil War<\/a> Black leaders could have chosen to pass as white<\/a> they instead identified deliberately as Black. This choice, Dineen-Wimberly argues, rested on their ability as Black people to achieve political power or economic success. This ability to succeed because they were Black thus constituted the \u201callure\u201d of Blackness. Dineen-Wimberly contends that her study pushes against a body of scholarship…<\/p>\n

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INGRID DINEEN-WIMBERLY. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862\u20131916. The American Historical Review Volume 126, Issue 2 (June 2021) pages 797\u2013798 DOI: 10.1093\/ahr\/rhab307 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Associate Professor of History Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862\u20131916. (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,8,20],"tags":[1629,1194,347,751],"class_list":["post-61448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-american-historical-review","tag-elizabeth-m-smith-pryor","tag-ingrid-dineen-wimberly","tag-the-american-historical-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61450,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61448\/revisions\/61450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}