| Description |
xiii, 546 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The Virginia "Act to preserve racial integrity" of 1924 -- "Marriage and divorce" in 1913 Arizona -- Pace v. State of Alabama, 1883 -- Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 1967 -- What is a white man? / Charles W. Chesnutt -- Beginnings of miscegenation of the whites and blacks / Carter G. Woodson -- Interracial marriage and the law / William D. Zabel -- Representing miscegenation law / Eva Saks -- Racial purity and interracial sex in the law of colonial and antebellum Virginia / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., & Barbara K. Kopytoff -- Enforcement of anti-miscegenation laws / Randall Kennedy -- Reading race, rhetoric, and the female body in the Rhinelander case / Jamie L. Wacks -- Miscegenation law, court cases, and ideologies of "race" in twentieth-century America / Peggy Pascoe -- Miscegenation issue in the election of 1864 / Sidney Kaplan -- American literary tradition and the Negro / Alain Locke -- From "Negro character as seen by white authors" / Sterling A. Brown -- Mulatto in American fiction / Penelope Bullock -- "Tragic octoroon" in pre-Civil War fiction / Jules Zanger -- Serpent of lust in the southern garden / William Bedford Clark -- Miscegenation in the late nineteenth-century American novel / William L. Andrews -- Tragic mulatto theme in six works of Langston Hughes / Arthur P. Davis -- Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson / Langston Hughes -- Of African queens and Afro-American princes and princesses : miscegenation in Old Hepsy / Simone Vauthier -- Othello in America : the drama of racial intermarriage / Tilden G. Edelstein -- Jean Toomer and American racial discourse / George Hutchinson -- Victims of likeness : quadroons and octoroons in southern fiction / Glenn Cannon Arbery -- Bodily bonds : the intersecting rhetorics of feminism and abolition / Karen Sanchez-Eppler -- American theriomorphia : the presence of Mulatez in Cirilo Villaverde and beyond / Eduardo Gonzalez -- Statistics of black-white intermarriage rates in the United States -- Miscegenation / W. E. B. Du Bois -- Intermarriage and the social structure : fact and theory / Robert K. Merton -- Reflections on Little Rock / Hannah Arendt -- Black men, white women : a philosophical view / William H. Turner -- Reflecting the changing face of America : multiracials, racial classification, and American intermarriage / Joel Perlmann. |
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Interracial marriage -- United States -- History.
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Miscegenation -- United States -- History.
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- History.
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Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Miscegenation in literature.
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Racially mixed people in literature.
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| Added Author |
Sollors, Werner.
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| ISBN |
0195128575 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0195128567 (alk. paper) |
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