| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Elise Lemire. "Miscegenation": Making Race in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. Pp. 204. $35.00.

The chief interest of this book by Elise Lemire is in the evidence it cites for white prejudice against blacks in the late eighteenth century and in the early and middle years of the nineteenth century. Much of this evidence consists of political rhetoric of the lowest kind. Comments made against Thomas Jefferson were designed to detroy him politically. The major charge against him—that he had a black slave mistress who had borne him children he was unwilling to acknowledge—may have been true. Later similar rhetoric was directed against nineteenth-century white abolitionists. The chief and sometimes only charge against them was that they were "amalgamationists." They were said to advocate intermarriage between black and white people or, failing that, to favor uninhibited sexual relations between them. An example of the vulgarity of this kind of "evidence" can be seen in a cartoon depicting a black man with gross lips and a low forehead seated on a divan. With one arm he is holding an entirely willing white woman. With his other arm he holds a guitar on his knee (which, as Lemire rightly points out, is probably meant to serve as a symbol for his phallus; p. 95). . . .

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