Legal Constructions of Race and Interpretations of Color

Howard Bodenhorn, The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South (Oxford University Press, 2015), chap. 2, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/color-factor-economics-african-american-well-being-nineteenth-century-south/legal-constructions-race-and-interpretations-color.