Perhaps, as the children of immigrants and minorities, Shaw and Goodman were less blinded by the racial prejudices of the times and were more willing to ..... read more
The decennial censuses conducted since 1790, after slavery was well established in the United States, included classification of persons by race: white, black, mulatto, and Indian (Nobles 2000). But, the inclusion of mulatto was an explicit acknowledgement of mixed race. read more