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

Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity. Ranging from Hannah Arendt to G...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sollors, Werner
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.