Race has played an important role in U.S. citizenship and immigration law since the earliest days of the nation’s history. By ...

Introduction -- Ungrounding : the Caucasian War and the second founding of the United States -- Racial adjudication : Frederick Douglass and the Circassian beauties -- Unsilencing the past : the ...

The United States that we live in today is a vastly different place culturally than it was when the Constitution was being debated. Enslavement is a thing of the past. Jim Crow laws are no more.

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension. Mikhail Lermontov’s Memory of Caucasus, ...