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Race mixing : Black-white marriage in postwar America /

"Marriage between blacks and whites is a long-standing and deeply ingrained taboo in American culture. On the eve of World War II, mixed-race marriage was illegal in most states, politicians argued for segregated facilities in order to prevent race mixing, and interracial couples risked public...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Romano, Renee Christine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : explaining a taboo
  • The unintended consequences of war
  • The dangers of "race mixing"
  • Ambivalent acceptance
  • Not just commies and beatniks
  • Culture wars and schoolhouse doors
  • The rights revolutions and interracial marriage
  • Talking Black and sleeping white
  • Eroded but not erased
  • Epilogue : is love the answer?