New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States

In this outline history I offer a theme. The theme is encapsulated in the short title New People... The term seems beautifully fitting. Mulattoes in America are a new people, new not just in a surface way of a new physical type, but new in the vital way of constituting a new culture that is both African and European, each transformed in America and married to one another. Because the great majority of American Negroes are in face of mixed ancestry... what begins in the colonial period as mulatto history ends in the twentieth century as Negro history and culture. "Miscegenation" is meant to include a broad range of intimacy, from the most ephemeral interracial sexual contacts to marriage and children. It includes the mixing of blacks and mulattoes as well as the mixing of whites with either blacks or mulattoes.