What Blood Won't Tell

A History of Race on Trial in America

Ariela J. Gross

  • Co-Winner 2009 James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association
  • Co-Winner 2009 Lillian Smith Book Awards, the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia
  • Winner of the 2009 American Political Science Association Award for the Best Book on Race, Ethnicity and Politics
  • A Note on Terminology
  • Introduction
  1. The Common Sense of Race
  2. Performing Whiteness
  3. Race as Association
  4. Citizenship of the “Little Races”
  5. Black Indian Identity in the Allotment Era
  6. From Nation to Race in Hawai’i
  7. Racial Science, Immigration, and the “White Races”
  8. Mexican Americans and the “Caucasian Cloak”
  • Conclusion: The Common Sense of Race Today
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Cover: What Blood Won't Tell
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Aynav Yefet

Ariela J. Gross is John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History, University of Southern California.