SOURCES
PINEY WOODS HISTORY
Sources and Background Readings for
“The Dominickers of Holmes County, Florida”
by William C. Hood, 2006

SOURCES
    1.  Beale, Calvin L. “American Triracial Isolates: Their Status and Pertinence to Genetic Research." Eugenics
    2.  Beale, Calvin L.  “Estimated Population of Reputed Indian-White-Negro Racial Isolates of the Eastern


    4.   Howell, Ralph D.  “Dominicker: A Regional Racial Term.” American Speech, Volume 47, Number 3/4,

    5.  Magnuson, Diana L. “History of Enumeration Procedures, 1790-1940,” from The Making of a Modern
    Census: The United States Census of Population, 1790-1940.  Ph.D. dissertation, University of
    Minnesota, 1995. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Minnesota Population Center, University of
    Minnesota, 2004 <http://www.ipums.umn.edu/usa/voliii/enumproc1.html>.

    6.  McKinnon, John Love.  History of Walton County.  Atlanta:  Byrd Printing, 1911.  Electronic version

    7.  Mordes, Patricia A.  “Earl Dee Hood, Chief Red Eagle of the Choctawhatchee Creeks.”  Found at Holmes

    9.  Price, Edward T.  “A Geographical Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in the Eastern United

    10.  Webb, Wanton S., editor.  “Holmes County.”  Webb’s Historical, Industrial, and Biographical Florida.

    11.  U. S. Bureau of the Census.  U. S. Census of Population: 1950.  Volume IV, Special Reports, Part 3,

    12.  Wright, Patrick.  “Name Change Sparks Debate.” Northwest Florida Daily News Online, Fort Walton

    Available in print only:

    13.  Carswell, E. W.  Holmesteading: The History of Holmes County, Florida. Published by the author at
    Chipley, Florida, 1986, pp. 26-28.

    14.  Carswell, E. W.  Washington: Florida’s Twelfth County.  Published by the author at Chipley, Florida,
    1991, pp. 6-9.

    15.  Metcalf, Clayton Gillis.  Scots and Their Kin, Volume I: Gilli(e)s, Padgett, Arrant, McQuagge,
    McLennan. Published by the author at Enterprise, Alabama, 1984, pp. 1-5.
Sharfstein, Daniel J.  “The Secret History of Race in the United States.”  Yale Law Journal, Volume 112, Number 6,
    March 2003 <http://www.yalelawjournal.org/archive_abstract.asp?id=252>.

    Mr. Sharfstein is a legal historian in residence at Harvard Law School who is writing a book about families
    with African-American ancestry who crossed the color line and assimilated into white communities.   

    From the abstract of the essay:

    “Over the course of the nineteenth century, the United States shifted from an identity regime that
    recognized “mulattoes” as a distinct racial category to one that divided the world strictly into black and
    white. Although this transition has been generally regarded as a time when mulattoes were absorbed
    into a black world, it was also a time when many established themselves as white. That is to say,
    across the South at the turn of the twentieth century, ostensibly white people who were socially
    accepted as white had African ancestry. . . . At the heart of this essay is an attempt to take race
    beyond conventional legal history and view cases about the color line as portals into a world of secret
    histories—whispered gossip, unstated understandings, and stories purposely forgotten.”

    Direct link to the full text of the essay (PDF document):  


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Sweet, Frank W.  Backintyme: History of the U. S. Color Line, Backintyme Publishing.

    Mr. Sweet has a master’s degree in Civil War studies from American Military University in Virginia, and is a
    Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Florida. He has published several books on U. S. racial history,
    and his website contains links to a number of his articles on the origins and development of racial boundaries
    in the South. Three of his Essays on the Color Line and the One-Drop Rule that are particularly revealing of
    the social, cultural, and legal background of the period in which the Dominickers originated are:

    “Antebellum Louisiana and Alabama: Two Color Lines, Three Endogamous Groups,” October 15, 2004

    “The Antebellum South Rejects the One-Drop Rule,” November 15, 2004
    “The One-Drop Rule Arrives in the Postbellum Lower South,” October 1, 2005
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