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Titolo: |
Interracialism : black-white intermarriage in American history, literature, and law / / edited by Werner Sollors
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (464p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.84/6/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Interracial marriage - United States - History |
Miscegenation - United States - History | |
Racially mixed people - United States - History | |
Interracial marriage - Law and legislation - United States - History | |
Miscegenation in literature | |
Racially mixed people in literature | |
Altri autori: |
SollorsWerner
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Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Interracialism ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-772468-X |
1-280-65507-0 | |
0-19-802951-9 | |
1-4237-2951-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910817793703321 |
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