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Interracialism : black-white intermarriage in American history, literature, and law

Author: Werner Sollors
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Werner Sollors
ISBN: 0195128567 9780195128567 0195128575 9780195128574
OCLC Number: 41445762
Description: xiii, 546 p. ; 24 cm.
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 --
The 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 --
The 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 --
Terms from the Oxford English dictionary --
The 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 --
The mulatto in American fiction / Penelope Bullock --
The "tragic octoroon" in pre-Civil War fiction / Jules Zanger --
The serpent of lust in the southern garden / William Bedford Clark --
Miscegenation in the late nineteenth-century American novel / William L. Andrews --
The 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 Sánchez-Eppler --
American theriomorphia: the presence of Mulatez in Cirilo Villaverde and beyond / Eduardo González --
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.
Responsibility: edited by Werner Sollors.
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