The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story

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The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story Get access Martha Hodes Martha Hodes Martha Hodes is an associate professor of history at New York University. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 1991 and has also taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (1997), winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians; and editor of Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (1999). This article is drawn from the book she is currently writing, forthcoming from W. W. Norton. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 108, Issue 1, February 2003, Pages 84–118, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/108.1.84 Published: 01 February 2003