The Color of Family Fiction & related items move and intrigue

move and intrigue

These stories are not ours to tell

and some storms defy any preparation

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The Color of Family Fiction & related items move and intrigueA uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America. A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentieth century, misusing his position to reclassify people he suspected of hiding their "true" race. But in addition to being blinded by his prejudices, he and his predecessors were operating more by instinct than by science. Their whole dubious enterprise was