"This is a painstakingly researched work—which, however, manages to present its massive archival legwork elegantly. . . . The book contains fascinating material and unites different disciplines and Native American, African American, and interracial history."—Werner Sollors, editor of Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriages in American History, Literature, and Law
"I enjoyed reading this study. It speaks to enduringly important themes in American history, and it adds new dimensions to our understanding of them. . . . By giving extended consideration to intermarriage between whites and American Indians, along with that between blacks and whites, it presents a fuller picture than we have been used to seeing and reminds us how complicated the problem of race has always been in this country. . . . The cases Weierman has recovered and explored are significant ones, and her analysis of them is careful and shrewd."—James O'Toole, author of Passing for White: Race, Religion,
and the Healy Family, 1820–1920
"With her thirty-plus pages of footnotes, the author creates a palatable stew of history, religion, politics, culture, and racial identity. The result is a question for Americans today in the face of growing multiculturalism: whether historical knowledge and cultural critique can help to reverse centuries of fear and prejudice so that we may see ourselves as one nation made 'of one blood."—Foreword