The Color of Family Fiction & related items These stories are not ours

These stories are not ours to tell

the authors of How to Use Herbs

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and some storms defy any preparation

The Color of Family Fiction & related items These stories are not oursA uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America. A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentieth century, misusing his position to reclassify people he suspected of hiding their "true" race. But in addition to being blinded by his prejudices, he and his predecessors were operating more by instinct than by science. Their whole dubious enterprise was