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Katherine Ellinghaus brilliantly traces the uneven practices that produced a powerful discourse of American Indian blood quantum. With sure hand and subtle interpretation, Blood Will Tell offers a compelling new reading of a technology of identity at once complicated and crude. - Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of Indians in Unexpected Places Written with great clarity and precision... Ellinghaus develops several key insights that will make contributions to historical scholarship on Indians, race, and western American history. - Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World A triumph of humanistic scholarship... Many of the topics Ellinghaus covers are of salience to contemporary debates about race and racism. - Gregory Smithers, author of Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940, Revised Edition

Katherine Ellinghaus brilliantly traces the uneven practices that produced a powerful discourse of American Indian blood quantum. With sure hand and subtle interpretation, Blood Will Tell offers a compelling new reading of a technology of identity at once complicated and crude. -Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of Indians in Unexpected Places -- Philip J. Deloria Written with great clarity and precision... Ellinghaus develops several key insights that will make contributions to historical scholarship on Indians, race, and western American history. -Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World -- Margaret Jacobs A triumph of humanistic scholarship... Many of the topics Ellinghaus covers are of salience to contemporary debates about race and racism. -Gregory Smithers, author of Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940, Revised Edition? -- Gregory Smithers

A triumph of humanistic scholarship. . . . Many of the topics Ellinghaus covers are of salience to contemporary debates about race and racism. -Gregory Smithers, author of Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940, Revised Edition? -- Gregory Smithers Written with great clarity and precision. . . . Ellinghaus develops several key insights that will make contributions to historical scholarship on Indians, race, and western American history. -Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World -- Margaret Jacobs Katherine Ellinghaus brilliantly traces the uneven practices that produced a powerful discourse of American Indian blood quantum. With sure hand and subtle interpretation, Blood Will Tell offers a compelling new reading of a technology of identity at once complicated and crude. -Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of Indians in Unexpected Places -- Philip J. Deloria

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Katherine Ellinghaus is an associate professor of history at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She is the author of Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in Australia and the United States, 1887–1937 (Nebraska, 2006) and coeditor of Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity.  

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