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Property rites : the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor.

Title
Property rites : the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor.
Author
Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M.
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

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xiii, 391 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Rhinelander, Leonard Kip > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Jones, Alice Beatrice > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Trials (Divorce) > Westchester County
  • Marriage > Annulment > Westchester County
  • Interracial marriage > Westchester County
  • Scandals > Westchester County
Genre/Form
Electronic books
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-372) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780807832684 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807832685 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780807859391 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0807859397 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008047143
OCLC
261174617
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library