Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law

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Werner Sollors
Oxford University Press, 19.10.2000 г. - 560 страници
Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our 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. By bringing together a selection of historically significant documents and of the best essays and scholarship on the subject of "miscegenation," Interracialism demonstrates that notions of race can be fruitfully approached from the vantage point of the denial of interracialism that typically informs racial ideologies.
 

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Introduction
3
LAWS AND DECISIONS
19
What Is a White Man?
37
Interracial Marriage and the Law
54
Representing Miscegenation Law
61
Racial Purity and Interracial Sex in the Law of Colonial
81
The Enforcement of AntiMiscegenation Laws
140
Reading Race Rhetoric and the Female Body
162
The Serpent of Lust in the Southern Garden
291
Miscegenation in the Late NineteenthCentury
305
The Tragic Mulatto Theme in Six Works
317
Mark Twains Puddnhead Wilson
326
The Drama of Racial Intermarriage
356
Jean Toomer and American Racial Discourse
369
Quadroons and Octoroons
393
The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism
408

Terms from the Oxford English Dictionary
211
The Miscegenation Issue in the Election of 1864
219
American Literary Tradition and the Negro
269
The Mulatto in American Fiction
280
The Presence of Mulatez
437
Statistics of BlackWhite Intermarriage Rates
459
Classification and American Intermarriage
506
For Further Reading
535

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Страница 7 - Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.

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Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and African-American Studies, and Director of the History of American Civilization Program at Harvard University.

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