Essay

Make-Believe Families and Whiteness

Author: Judy Scales-Trent (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Abstract

By examining Senegalese and Iroquois societies, this article puts forth the claim that "White Americans" have maintained racial purity by making believe that some family groups do not exist. The paper argues that rather than creating fictive family ties or acknowledging real family units, whites have created racial warfare by ignoring multi-racial family units.

Keywords: Ethnic groups, Ethnicity, Whites, Families, United States

How to Cite: Scales-Trent, J. (2005) “Make-Believe Families and Whiteness”, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy. 18(1).