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100 1 $aWalker, Clarence Earl.
245 10 $aMongrel nation :$bthe America begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings /$cClarence E. Walker.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$c2009.
300 $axii, 128 pages ;$c22 cm.
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490 1 $aJeffersonian America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [101]-122) and index.
520 1 $a"The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of "Did they or didn't they?" And lost become equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and culturally, than most realize. Mongrel Nation seeks to uncover this complexity, as well as the reasons it is so often obscured." "Clarence Walker contends that the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings must be seen not in isolation but in the broader context of interracial affairs within the plantation complex. From this perspective, the relationship was not unusual or aberrant but fairly typical. For many, this is a disturbing realization, because it forces us to abandon the idea of American exceptionalism and reexamine slavery in America as part of a long. global history of slaveholders frequently crossing the color line." "More than many other societies and despite our obvious mixed-race population - our nation has displayed particular reluctance to acknowledge this dynamic. In a country where, as early as 1662, interracial sex was already punishable by law, an understanding of the Hemings-Jefferson relationship has consistently met with resistance. From Jefferson's time to our own, the general public denied -or remained oblivious to - the possibility of the affair, Historians, too, dismissed the idea, even when confronted with compelling arguments by fellow scholars. It took the DNA findings of 1998 to persuade many." "The refusal to admit the likelihood of this union stems, of course, from Jefferson's symbolic significance as a Founding Father. The president's apologists, both before and after the DNA findings, have constructed an iconic Jefferson that tells us more about their own beliefs - and the often alarming demands of those beliefs -than it does about the interaction between slave owners and slaves. Much more than a search for the facts about two individuals, the debate over Jefferson and Hemings is emblematic of tensions in our society between competing conceptions both of race and of our nation."--BOOK JACKET.
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651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
600 10 $aJefferson, Thomas,$d1743-1826$xRelations with women.
600 10 $aJefferson, Thomas,$d1743-1826.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089957
650 0 $aSlaves.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123347
600 10 $aHemings, Sally.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78056413
650 0 $aWhite people$xRace identity$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113472
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001973
650 0 $aRacially mixed people$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94000806
830 0 $aJeffersonian America.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99044272
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