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Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law
by Werner Sollors. 546 pgs.

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Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity. Ranging from Hannah Arendt to George Schuyler and from Pace v. Alabama to Loving v. Virginia, it provides extraordinary resources for faculty and students in English, American and Ethnic Studies as well as for general readers interested in race relations. By bringing together a selection of historically significant documents and of the best essays and scholarship on the subject of "miscegenation," interracialism demonstrates that notions of race can be fruitfully approached from the vantage point of the denial of interracialism that typically informs racial ideologies.

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Title Page

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

References

Part I: The History of "Miscegenation" and the Legal Construction of Race

What Is a White Man?

The Beginnings of Miscegenation of the Whites and Blacks

Interracial Marriage and the Law

Representing Miscegenation Law

Racial Purity and Interracial Sex in the Law of Colonial and Antebellum Virginia

The Enforcement of Anti-Miscegenation Laws

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Reading Race, Rhetoric, and the Female Body in the Rhinelander Case

Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of "Race" in Twentieth-Century America

American Literary Tradition and the Negro

The Mulatto in American Fiction

The "Tragic Octoroon" in Pre-Civil War Fiction

The Serpent of Lust in the Southern Garden

Miscegenation in the Late Nineteenth-Century American Novel

The Tragic Mulatto Theme in Six Works of Langston Hughes

Mark Twain's Pudd'Nhead Wilson

Of African Queens and Afro-American Princes and Princesses: Miscegenation in Old Hepsy

Othello in America: The Drama of Racial Intermarriage

Jean Toomer and American Racial Discourse

Victims of Likeness: Quadroons and Octoroons in Southern Fiction

Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition

American Theriomorphia: The Presence of Mulatez in Cirilo Villaverde and Beyond

Part III: Social Theory and Analysis

Bibliography

Intermarriage and the Social Structure: Fact and Theory

Reflections on Little Rock

Black Men -- White Women: A Philosophical View

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Reflecting the Changing Face of America: Multiracials, Racial Classification, and American Intermarriage

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For Further Reading

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The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States (Chap. 6 "The Family: Marriage outside the Color Line" and Chap. 8 "Love and Color")
by Ursula M. Brown. 155 pgs.

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The number of black-white mixed marriages increased by 504% in the last 25 years. By gathering hard data as well as a series of intensely personal and revealing vignettes, Dr. Brown offers a rare glimpse into the lives, struggles, frustration and joys of mixed race people. She investigates psychosocial issues unique to mixed race children. Also, experiences that influenced their adjustment in a country that has subjected them to racist abuses from the white as well as black side of the racial divide and has shoehorned them into a racial category that denies half of their physiological and psychological existence are explored.

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The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction: Three Interracial People

Chapter 2: An Orientation of the Study

Chapter 3: Racism

Chapter 4: Racial Identity, Conflict, and Self-Esteem

Chapter 5: When the Clothes Don’t Fit

Chapter 6: The Family

Chapter 7: Places to Live and Learn

Chapter 8: Love and Color

Chapter 9: Being Well

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Appendix B

Appendix C

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Crossing the Line: Interracial Couples in the South (Chap. 2 "Mulattoes, Miscegenation, and the History of Black/White Marriages")
by Robert P. McNamara, Maria Tempenis, Beth Walton. 171 pgs.

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Despite the increased number of interracial marriages in recent years, Black/White couples still experience a host of problems in American society, particularly in the South. Drawing on extensive interviews with 28 Black/White couples living in the South, this ethnographic study describes the issues and obstacles these couples have to face and documents their overwhelming sense of social isolation. The problems include hostility, encountered while the couple is in public, ranging from stares to outright attacks, as well as a lack of support and ostracization by their families. After discussing the nature of Black/White relationships and the historical implications of interracial couples--beginning with slavery--the authors adopt a life history approach, which allows them to probe deeply into the meaning of the interviewees' responses.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: The Nature of Black/White Relationships

Chapter 2: And the History of Black/White Marriages

Chapter 3: The Couples

Chapter 4: A Family Affair

Chapter 5: Stepping Over the Line: Problems for Interracial Couples

Chapter 6: Understanding the Opposition

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Index

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Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives ("Women Dreaming: The Religiopsychology of Indian-White Marriages and the Rise of a Metis Culture" begins on p. 49)
by Lillian Schlissel, Vicki L. Ruiz, Janice Monk. 354 pgs.

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Part I: Starting Points

Chapter One: Editors' Introduction

Anglo Women and Domestic Ideology in the American West in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

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Chapter Two: Editors' Introduction

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Women Dreaming: the Religiopsychology of Indian-White Marriages and the Rise of a Metis Culture

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Chapter Three: Editors' Introduction

Family on the Western Frontier

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Chapter Four: Editors' Introduction

"And Miles to Go...": Mexican Women and Work, 1930-1985

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Part II: New Directions

Chapter Five: Editors' Introduction

Women's Place: Continuity and Change in Response to Western Landscapes

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Chapter Six: Editors' Introduction

The Custom of the Country: Cross-Cultural Marriage in the Far Western Fur Trade

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Chapter Seven: Editors' Introduction

The Legal Rights of American Indian Women

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Chapter Eight: Editors' Introduction

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Victoria's Daughters:: English Speaking Women on Nineteenth-Century Frontiers

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Comparative Frontiers: The Migration of Women to Alta California and New Zealand

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Chapter Nine: Editors' Introduction

Beyond John Wayne: Using Historic Sites to Interpret Western Women's History

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Epilogue

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Who Intermarries? Education, Nativity, Region, and Interracial Marriage, 1980 and 1990, in Journal of Comparative Family Studies
by Zhenchao Qian. 19 pgs.

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Interracial Couples' Experience of Leisure: A Social Network Approach, in Journal of Leisure Research
by Dan K. Hibbler, Kimberly J. Shinew. 22 pgs.

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Margins of Acceptability: Class, Education, and Interracial Marriage in Australia and North America, in Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies
by Katherine Ellinghaus. 20 pgs.

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How Many Melting Pots? Intermarriage, Panethnicity and the Black/Non-Black Divide in the United States, in Journal of Comparative Family Studies
by Vincent Kang Fu. 22 pgs.

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American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity (Chap. 11 "Exploring the Social Construction of Race: Sociology and the Study of Interracial Relationships")
by Naomi Zack. 379 pgs.

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This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly into the boxes society requires them to check.

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American Mixed Race

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Autobiography

1: Five Arrows

2: Color Fades over Time

3: Racelessness

4: Check the Box That Best Describes You

5: What Are They?

Part II: Art

6: From Melodrama to the Movies: the Tragic Mulatto as a Type Character

7: The Theater of Identity: (multi-)race and Representation of Eurasians and Afroasians

8: The Go-Between People: Representations of Mixed Race in Twentieth-Century American Literature

Part III: Social Science

9: The Hawaiian Alternative to the One-Drop Rule

10: Some Kind of Indian: on Race, Eugenics, and Mixed-Bloods

11: Exploring the Social Construction of Race: Sociology and the Study of Interracial Relationships

12: Therapeutic Perspectives on Biracial Identity Formation and Internalized Oppression

Part IV: Public Policy

13: Grassroots Advocacy

14: Testimony of the Association of Multiethnic Americans before the Subcommittee on Census, Statistics, and Postal Personnel of the U.S. House of Representatives

15: Multiracial Identity Assertion in the Sociopolitical Context of Primary Education

16: Yankee Imperialism and Imperialist Nostalgia: a View from the Inside

Part V: Identity Theory

17: The Multiracial Contribution to the Psychological Browning of America

18: Made in the Usa: Racial Mixing 'N Matching

19: Mestizo Identity

20: Race and Racism: Marginalization within the Margins

21: Ethnic Transgressions: Confessions of an Assimilated Jew

22: Life after Race

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Ethnic Groups and Marital Choices: Ethnic History and Marital Assimilation in Canada, 1871 and 1971 (Chap. Two "The Relationship between Intermarriage and Assimilation: Patterns, Correlates, and Determinants" and Chap. Five "Prevelance and Patterns of Intermarriage in Canada, 1871 and 1971")
by Madeline A. Richard. 194 pgs.

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Chapter One Introduction

Chapter Two the Relationship Between Intermarriage and Assimilation: Patterns, Correlates, and Determinants

Summary

Chapter Three Canada's Immigrants: Patterns of Immigration and Ethnic Settlement

Chapter Four Canada's Ethnic Populations

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Chapter Five Prevalence and Patterns of Intermarriage in Canada, 1871 and 1971

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Chapter Six Group and Individual Factors

Chapter Seven Conclusion

Conclusions

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index
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Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives ("Interracial Marriage" begins on p. 172)
by Huping Ling. 254 pgs.

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Part One Early Chinese Immigrant Women, 1840s-1943

Chapter 1 Nineteenth Century Immigration: Chinese Women Came to the Gold Mountain

Chapter 2 Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Chinese American Women at Work

Chapter 3 Defining Home and Community

Part Two Postwar Chinese American Women, 1943-1965

Chapter 4 Postwar Chinese American Women

Part Three Contemporary Chinese American Women, 1965-1990s

Chapter 5 New Turning Point

Chapter 6 Issues and Concerns

Chapter 7 Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Status Exchange in Intermarriage among Hawaiians, Japanese, Filipinos and Caucasians in Hawaii: 1983-1994, in Journal of Comparative Family Studies
by Xuanning Fu, Tim B. Heaton. 17 pgs.

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