Interracialism : black-white intermarriage in American history, literature, and law / edited by Werner Sollors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sollors, Werner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interracial marriage--United States--History.

Interracial marriage.

Miscegenation (Racist theory)--United States--History.

Miscegenation (Racist theory).

Multiracial people--United States--History.

Multiracial people.

Interracial marriage--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature.

Multiracial people in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780197724682

019772468X

9781280655074

1280655070

9780198029519

0198029519

9781423729518

142372951X

OCLC:

41445762