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Property rites the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness /

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Main Author: Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Subjects:
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 County.
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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.

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