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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Novkov, Julie, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Interracial marriage > Law and legislation > Alabama > History.
Miscegenation > Alabama > History.
African Americans > Alabama > Social conditions > History.
White supremacy movements > Alabama > History.
Métissage > Alabama > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Alabama > Conditions sociales.
Mouvements pour la suprématie blanche > Alabama > Histoire.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Interracial marriage > Law and legislation.
Miscegenation.
Race relations.
White supremacy movements.
Alabama > Race relations > History.
Alabama > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Alabama.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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