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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"Werner Sollors had given us a gift, a unique collection of essays covering the most significant and most difficult aspect of race in American history. Interracialism is the standard reader for all those interested in this central issue in American culture."--American Studies International, October 2001
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Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and African-American Studies, and Director of the History of American Civilization Program at Harvard University.
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This review is from: Interracialism : Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law (Paperback)
This is a very important book if one wants to know about the multiracial history of America. All too often, we focused on recent interracialism, starting in the sixties when the Supreme Court struck down antimiscegenation laws in 16 states and that current IRs consists of black men/white women and asian women/white men pairs, ignoring all other racial/gender combinations as well as the pre-Loving past.
This book is an eye-opener for me.
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This is a great compilation. It covers various aspects of the issues of "interracialism,"-- as the title indicates-- and seeks to historicize the subject in order to gain greater perspective. I appreciate that there are articles by DuBois and Carter G. Woodson next to deep literary analysis on cannonical peices.
It's deep.
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This collection begins with the texts of selected laws (Arizona and Virginia) and the momentous Supreme Court decisions of Pace v. State of Alabama (1883) and Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1967) that mark the modern trajectory of legal thinking about black-white interracialism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
voluntary interracial sex, single race approach, modernist racial ideology, miscegenous body, miscegenation jurisprudence, miscegenation discourse, tragic octoroon, miscegenation cases, such bastard child, interracial fornication, tragic mulatto theme, paradoxical marks, word miscegenation, antislavery fiction, antislavery stories, racially based system, racial boundary lines, ancestry question, class endogamy, mulatto bastards, voluntary sexual relations, miscegenation statutes, interclass marriage, miscegenation issue, white racial purity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, North Carolina, Census Bureau, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Alice Jones, Uncle Tom's Cabin, New Orleans, South Carolina, Mark Twain, Van Evrie, American Indian, Native American, Liberty Bell, Toomer Papers, African American, Langston Hughes, Waldo Frank, National Anti-Slavery Standard, Chapel Hill, Code Ann, Father John, Harriet Beecher Stowe, New England, South Africa New!
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This collection begins with the texts of selected laws (Arizona and Virginia) and the momentous Supreme Court decisions of Pace v. State of Alabama (1883) and Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1967) that mark the modern trajectory of legal thinking about black-white interracialism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
voluntary interracial sex, single race approach, modernist racial ideology, miscegenous body, miscegenation jurisprudence, miscegenation discourse, tragic octoroon, miscegenation cases, such bastard child, interracial fornication, tragic mulatto theme, paradoxical marks, word miscegenation, antislavery fiction, antislavery stories, racially based system, racial boundary lines, ancestry question, class endogamy, mulatto bastards, voluntary sexual relations, miscegenation statutes, interclass marriage, miscegenation issue, white racial purity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, North Carolina, Census Bureau, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Alice Jones, Uncle Tom's Cabin, New Orleans, South Carolina, Mark Twain, Van Evrie, American Indian, Native American, Liberty Bell, Toomer Papers, African American, Langston Hughes, Waldo Frank, National Anti-Slavery Standard, Chapel Hill, Code Ann, Father John, Harriet Beecher Stowe, New England, South Africa New!
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- Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain on 16 pages
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe on 6 pages
- Who Is Black?: One Nation's Definition by F. James Davis on 4 pages
- Band of Angels (Voices of the South) by Robert Penn Warren on page 207, page 304, and page 356
- Neither Black nor White yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature by Werner Sollors on page 173, Back Matter, and Back Cover
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