An aristocracy of color : race and reconstruction in California and the West, 1850-1890 /
As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color, many white Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state's legal system during the 1850s. But nonwhite Californians -- blacks and Chinese in p...
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
©2013.
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| Series: | Race and culture in the American West
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