Washington University Journal of Law & Policy

Article Title

Make-Believe Families and Whiteness

Authors

Judy Scales-Trent, State University of New York, Buffalo

Publication Title

Washington University Journal of Law & Policy

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.

Recommended Citation

Judy Scales-Trent, Make-Believe Families and Whiteness, 18 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y 47 (2005),
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_journal_law_policy/vol18/iss1/4