Property rites [electronic resource] : the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor.
Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 391 p. : illISBN:- 9780807859391 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807859397 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780807832684 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807832685 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 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
- 346.747/770166 22
- KF228.R486 S62 2009eb
eBooks
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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