{"id":7821,"date":"2010-07-02T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2014-10-09T19:36:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:36:14","slug":"reading-between-the-blood-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7821","title":{"rendered":"Reading between the (Blood) Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading between the (Blood) Lines<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Southern California Law Review<\/a>
\nVolume 83, Number 3<\/a> (2010)
\npages 473-494<\/p>\n

Rose Cuison Villazor<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Law
\nHofstra University School of Law<\/em><\/p>\n

Legal scholars and historians have depicted the rule of hypodescent<\/a>\u2014that \u201cone drop\u201d of African blood categorized one as Black\u2014as one of the powerful ways that law and society deployed to construct racial identities and deny equal citizenship. Ariela J. Gross\u2019s<\/a> new book, \u201cWhat Blood Won\u2019t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America<\/a>,\u201d boldly complicates the dominant narrative about hypodescent rules in legal scholarship. On the one hand, \u201cWhat Blood Won\u2019t Tell\u201d argues that the legal and social construction of race was far more complex, flexible and subject to manipulation than the scholarship regarding the rules about blood distinctions has suggested. On the other hand, \u201cWhat Blood Won\u2019t Tell\u201d highlights circumstances, both historically and in recent memory, of the ways in which blood distinctions played crucial roles in shaping the identity of people of color, including indigenous peoples. Importantly, \u201cWhat Blood Won\u2019t Tell\u201d also examines how blood quantum rules relate to contemporary efforts to reassert indigenous peoples\u2019 sovereignty and claims to lands.<\/p>\n

This Review highlights the important contributions of \u201cWhat Blood Won\u2019t Tell\u201d to our understanding of the racial experience of indigenous peoples and the contemporary methods used to remedy the present-day effects of indigenous peoples\u2019 colonial experience.\u00a0\u201cWhat Blood Won\u2019t Tell\u201d advances a more robust account of the racialization of people of color through rules about blood differences in at least three ways. First, it places the colonial experience of indigenous peoples within the larger historical contexts of racial subordination and efforts to promote White domination and privilege. Second, it underscores the federal government\u2019s ongoing responsibility to counteract the long-standing effects of its past misdeeds by addressing indigenous peoples\u2019 unresolved claims to lands that have been stolen from them. Third, it allows us to take a careful look at the relationship between blood quantum rules and the right of indigenous peoples to exercise self-determination.<\/strong> Taken together, these three perspectives reveal the immense challenges inherent to remedying the long-term effects of the racialization and colonization of indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n

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Reading between the (Blood) Lines Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (2010) pages 473-494 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Legal scholars and historians have depicted the rule of hypodescent\u2014that \u201cone drop\u201d of African blood categorized one as Black\u2014as one of the powerful ways that law and society […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,1467,8,3015,20],"tags":[880,873,7552,3212,7553,3213],"class_list":["post-7821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-ariela-gross","tag-ariela-j-gross","tag-rose-c-villazor","tag-rose-cuison-villazor","tag-rose-villazor","tag-southern-california-law-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821","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=7821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}