Property rites [electronic resource] : the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor.
2009
KF228.R486 S62 2009eb
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Property rites [electronic resource] : the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor.
Author
Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M.
ISBN
9780807859391 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807859397 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807832684 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807832685 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807859397 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807832684 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807832685 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 391 p. : ill.
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KF228.R486 S62 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
346.747/770166
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-372) and index.
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Table of Contents
Curious acts
"All mixed up" in New York
The trial begins
Passing and the "seemingly absurd question" of race
Defending the citadel of whiteness from the "awful stain"
The trial continues : degeneracy, modern love, and "filthy letters"
"Poor little cupid" and the marriage contract
Blind love and the visibility of race
The trial ends.
"All mixed up" in New York
The trial begins
Passing and the "seemingly absurd question" of race
Defending the citadel of whiteness from the "awful stain"
The trial continues : degeneracy, modern love, and "filthy letters"
"Poor little cupid" and the marriage contract
Blind love and the visibility of race
The trial ends.