The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916In The Allure of Blackness among Mixed Race Americans, 18621916, Ingrid Dineen Wimberly examines generations of mixed race African Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era, skillfully tracking the rise of a leadership class in Black America made up largely of individuals who had complex racial ancestries, many of whom therefore enjoyed racial options to identity as either Black or White. Although these people might have chosen to