Despite The Many Advances That The United States Has Made In Racial Equality, Numerous Events Have Proven Prejudice To Be Alive And Well In Modern-day America. The Color Factor: The Economics Of African-american Well-being In The Nineteenth-century South Demonstrates That The Emergent Twenty-first-century Recognition Of Race Mixing And The Relative Advantages Of Light-skinned, Mixed-race People Represent A Re-emergence Of One Salient Feature Of Race In America That Dates To Its Founding. Economist Howard Bodenhorn Presents The First Full-length Study Of The Ways In Which Skin Color Intersected With Policy, Society, And Economy In The Nineteenth-century South. With Empirical And Statistical Rigor, The Investigation Confirms That Individuals Of Mixed Race Experienced Advantages Over African Americans In Multiple Dimensions--in Occupations, Family Formation And Family Size, Wealth, Health, And Access To Freedom, Among Other Criteria. The Color Factor Concludes That We Will Not Really Understand Race Until We Understand How American Attitudes Toward Race Were Shaped By Race Mixing. Legal Constructions Of Race And Interpretations Of Color -- Race Mixing And Color In Literature And Science -- The Plantation -- Finding Freedom -- Marriage And The Family -- Work -- Wealth -- Height, Health And Mortality. Howard Bodenhorn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.