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“The Color of Family is at once an immediately engaging account of an Irish and Virginian family history and a compelling critique of the work of producing and policing racial categories through official records of individual identity. Through his stories and documents, O’Malley both confronts the commodification of genealogical sources and offers a profoundly important message about the fiction and effects of race.” * Catherine Nash, author of Genetic Geographies * “A compelling glimpse of major themes in US history through the tangled branches of one family tree. O’Malley writes beautifully in that zone where street-level, lived experience intersects with broader structures of society, ideology, and governance. This is historical writing at its best.” * Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of Whiteness of a Different Color * “O’Malley’s Color of Family will intrigue anyone interested in genealogy, family history, or historians’ methods. The many blind corners and unexpected turns in this account of a historian’s genealogical research compel the reader to hold on even more tightly to O'Malley’s clear and vivid storytelling.” * Francesca Morgan, author of A Nation of Descendants *

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Michael O’Malley is professor of US history at George Mason University. He is the author of multiple books, most recently Face Value and The Beat Cop, published by the University of Chicago Press.

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