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Racial union : law, intimacy, and the White state in Alabama, 1865-1954 /

"In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate the state's antimiscegenation law to the dustbin of history. The measure passed, but the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Novkov, Julie, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The criminal ban on miscegenation as a contested site
  • Creating a constitutional order : 1865-82
  • The elements of miscegenation and its threat to the family : 1883-1917
  • Litigating race : 1918-28
  • Consolidating and embedding White supremacy : 1928-40
  • White power and public policy in testamentary disputes : 1914-44
  • Portraying the static state : 1941-54
  • Race and the legacy of the supremacist state.