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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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?