The Color of Race in America 19001940 Author:Matthew Pratt Guterl With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after World War I came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic ... more »transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. "Guterl juxtaposes the lives of four turn-of-the-20th-century New Yorkers: Irish American nationalist Daniel Cohalan, eugenicist and white supremacist Madison Grant, African American advocate W. E. B. Du Bois, and mixed-race novelist Jean Toomer. Showing their individual fascination with race and its politics, Guterl unpacks each individual's race consciousness. The work is absorbing reading bound to take a place alongside recent works on race, and particularly whiteness." —Thomas J. Davis, Library Journal "Truly brilliant … conceptually arresting and beautifully written. Matthew Guterl has produced what may well become a benchmark for informed discussion of race in the construction of American identities in the early twentieth century." —David Levering Lewis, author of W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963« less