Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 391 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0807859397
,
0807832685
,
0807894176
,
1469605902
,
9780807859391
,
9780807832684
,
9780807894170
,
9781469605906
Content:
In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a "colored" cabman. After being married only one month, Rhinelander pressed for the dissolution of his marriage on the grounds that his wife had lied to him about her racial background. The subsequent marital annulment trial became a massive public spectacle, not only in New York but across the nation--despite the fact that the state had never outlawed interracial marriage. Elizabeth Smith-Pryor makes extensive use of trial transcripts, in addition to contemporary newspaper coverage and archival sources, to explore why Leonard Rhinelander was allowed his day in court. She moves fluidly between legal history, a day-by-day narrative of the trial itself, and analyses of the trial's place in the culture of the 1920s North to show how notions of race, property, and the law were--and are--inextricably intertwined
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-372) and index
Additional Edition:
9780807859391
Additional Edition:
0807859397
Additional Edition:
9780807832684
Additional Edition:
0807832685
Additional Edition:
Print version Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M Property rites Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009
Language:
English
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