04772nam 2200553 a 450 991081779370332120240410115357.00-19-772468-X1-280-65507-00-19-802951-91-4237-2951-X(CKB)1000000000028917(StDuBDS)AH24085323(MiAaPQ)EBC271704(EXLCZ)99100000000002891720000412d2000 fy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInterracialism black-white intermarriage in American history, literature and law /Werner Sollors1st ed.New York ;Oxford Oxford University Press20001 online resource (464p.) Includes index.0-19-512856-7 0-19-512857-5 Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The History of "Miscegenation" and the Legal Construction of Race -- LAWS AND DECISIONS -- 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 -- ESSAYS -- What Is a White Man? -- The Beginnings of Miscegenation of the Whites and Blacks -- Interracial Marriage and the Law -- Representing Miscegenation Law -- Racial Purity and Interracial Sex in the Law of Colonial and Antebellum Virginia -- The Enforcement of Anti-Miscegenation Laws -- Reading Race, Rhetoric, and the Female Body in the Rhinelander Case -- Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of "Race" in Twentieth-Century America -- Part II: Literature -- A MISCEGENATION VOCABULARY AND THE COINING OF AN AMERICANISM -- Terms from the Oxford English Dictionary -- The Miscegenation Issue in the Election of 1864 -- THE "TRAGIC MULATTO" AND OTHER THEMES OF INTERRACIAL LITERATURE -- American Literary Tradition and the Negro -- From "Negro Character as Seen by White Authors -- The Mulatto in American Fiction -- The "Tragic Octoroon" in Pre-Civil War Fiction -- The Serpent of Lust in the Southern Garden -- Miscegenation in the Late Nineteenth-Century American Novel -- CASE STUDIES AND CLOSE READINGS -- The Tragic Mulatto Theme in Six Works of Langston Hughes -- Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson -- Of African Queens and Afro-American Princes and Princesses: Miscegenation in Old Hepsy -- Othello in America: The Drama of Racial Intermarriage -- Jean Toomer and American Racial Discourse -- LITERATURE IN CONTEXTS -- Victims of Likeness: Quadroons and Octoroons in Southern Fiction -- Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition -- American Theriomorphia: The Presence of Mulatez in Cirilo Villaverde and Beyond.Part III: Social Theory and Analysis -- Statistics of Black-White Intermarriage Rates in the United States -- Miscegenation -- Intermarriage and the Social Structure: Fact and Theory -- Reflections on Little Rock -- Black Men-White Women: A Philosophical View -- Reflecting the Changing Face of America: Multiracials, Racial Classification, and American Intermarriage -- For Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.Interracialism has formed, torn apart, defined and divided the American nation since its earliest history. This volume explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in American racial identity.Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided the American nation since its earliest history. This volume explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in American racial identity. Ranging from Hannah Arendt to George Schuyler and from Pace v. Alabama to Loving v. Virginia, it provides extraordinary resources for faculty and students in English, American and Ethnic Studies, as well as for general readers interested in race relations.Interracial marriageUnited StatesHistoryRace relations in literatureMiscegenationUnited StatesLaw and legislationUnited StatesRace relationsElectronic books.lcshInterracial marriageHistory.Race relations in literature.MiscegenationLaw and legislation.306.8460973Sollors Werner542765StDuBDSStDuBDSUkPrAHLSBOOK9910817793703321Interracialism3957506UNINA