Property rites [electronic resource] : the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 391 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 346.747/770166 22
LOC classification:
  • KF228.R486 S62 2009eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-372) and index.

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.

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