The History of Mixed-Race Peoples in North America (formerly HIST 239)

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3 Lecture Hour(s) 0 Lab Hour(s) This course explores the history of race-mixing between Native Americans, African Americans, and Poor Whites in North America from the colonial period to the present. This course will examines the origins of mixed-race peoples in the eastern United States from the 1500s to present. Which will include but not be limited to; Lumbees, Melungeons, Jackson Whites, Creoles, Brass Ankles, Jukes, etc. Special emphasis will be placed on the question of creolization in early America and how the mixing of Africans, Native Americans and Europeans has led to hundreds of mixed-race communities and millions of mixed-race peoples all over the eastern United States. This course will also examine the evolution of laws dealing with mixed-race people form the 1500’s to present.