Contrary to what a "postracial" America believed when Barack Obama was elected, mixed race people are older than the New World itself. Three origins—New Spain throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the Virginian Commonwealth in 1655, and Africa's Gold Coast at the start of the transatlantic slave trade—reveal how the concept of race was constructed in the name of empire, which birthed the very idea of "mixing" races.

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