However entrenched in ideologies was the subordination of races during colonization,
"racial lines were neither consistently nor sharply delineated among or within all social groups." The social meanings and legal entitlements that were breathed into racial identity in the race trials of the nineteenth-century South provide a context in which to illuminate the similarities between the ways in which Anglo-American whites have historically tried to preserve their racial purity and privilege and the ways in which Congress has and still does establish criteria for the requisite "Indian-ness."
-A Closer Look At Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez: Membership By Sex, By Race, And By Tribal Tradition by Lucy A. Curry Wisconsin Women's Law Journal
Vol.16:161 pg.190
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