"...excellent and absorbing book."
Times Literary Supplement "a fascinating look at a seldom-recognized aspect of American race relations."
Booklist "The intersections between Native American history and the history of race in America are not always clear. Too often fear and fantasy obscure our memory and our vision. This compelling story of human beings struggling to survive and make lives for themselves and ... Read moretheir families shines a fascinating light on the many places where red and black and white overlapped, blurred, and made history. This is a very important book."
Frederick E. Hoxie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Meticulously researched, eloquently written, and full of the pain of slavery, dispossession, racism, and history itself, Black, White, and Indian sits at the leading edge of the exciting body of new work on African/American/Indian relations."
Philip J. Deloria, University of Michigan "All histories, especially family histories, harbor silences wherein uneasy truths reside. But few such histories
once those silences grow full with stories
speak so directly to the central sorrows in American society, past and present, as that of the Grayson family. Claudio Saunt's sensitive and daring recovery of the Grayson's centuries-long struggle to navigate the perilous racial triangle of Black, white, and Indian is at once irresistible and heartbreaking. It is a work for the ages."
James F. Brooks, author of Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America Show Less