Stephen Middleton is Emeritus Professor of History at Mississippi State University. He is coeditor (with David R. Roediger and Donald M. Shaffer) of The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity and author of The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Ohio, 1787-1860.
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