Property rites [electronic resource] : the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor.
By: Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M.
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BookPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009Description: xiii, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Rhinelander, Leonard Kip -- Trials, litigation, etc | Jones, Alice Beatrice -- Trials, litigation, etc | Trials (Divorce) -- New York (State) -- Westchester County | Marriage -- Annulment -- New York (State) -- Westchester County | Interracial marriage -- New York (State) -- Westchester County | Scandals -- New York (State) -- Westchester CountyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 346.747/770166 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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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