The United States of the United RacesBarack Obamas historic presidency has re inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U. S. history is a familiar story, The United States of the United Races reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. In this genealogy, Greg Carter re envisions