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. : illSubject(s):- 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
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- KF228.R486 S62 2009eb
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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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