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Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M.

Property rites the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. - xiii, 391 p. : ill.

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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Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Subjects--Personal Names:
Rhinelander, Leonard Kip--Trials, litigation, etc.
Jones, Alice Beatrice--Trials, litigation, etc.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: KF228.R486 / S62 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 346.747/770166