ISBN:
9781541605312
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 326 Seiten
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Illustrationen, 1 Karte, 2 genealogische Tafeln
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25 cm
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.8450976
Keywords:
Geschichte 1690-1967
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Interethnische Ehe
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Staat Mississippi
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Interracial marriage / Mississippi / History
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Interracial marriage / Law and legislation / Mississippi / History
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African Americans / Legal status, laws, etc / Southern States
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Common law marriage / Southern States
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Multiracial families / Southern States
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Inheritance and succession
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White supremacy (Social structure) / Mississippi
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Staat Mississippi
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Interethnische Ehe
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Geschichte 1690-1967
Abstract:
"Interracial marriage was already illegal in some of the American colonies as early as the 1690s. But long before the Supreme Court declared interracial marriage constitutional in 1967, these families were far from rare. It took decades of hard work by Southern lawmakers and judges to create the illusion that they were, as Tangled Fortunes reveals in this new history of the rise and fall of the domestic color line. In Tangled Fortunes, historian Kathryn Schumaker narrates how the prohibition of interracial marriage became a priority for white supremacist lawmakers. To prevent white wealth falling into Black hands, they papered over the reality of interracial relationships, steered inheritances away from those who did not pass as white, and hardened the lines of racist exclusion. But they could neither erase the region's longer history of interracial relationships nor suppress the inheritance claims of biracial descendants dating back to the era of slavery. Tangled Fortunes sheds new light on the ways that interracial families overcame racist laws, uncovered closely kept Southern secrets, and battled to reclaim Black wealth - a fight that continues to this day."
Description / Table of Contents:
Inheritances: Mary Ann and Levin -- Strategies of survival: Albert and Carrie -- Concubines and wives: Mary and William -- "The law is a grinning corpse": Charles and Ella -- "One drop": Antonio and Clara -- Myths of racial integrity: Ralphine and William -- Exiling the past: Pearl and Alex -- Criminal affections: Daisy and Elsie -- The white man's will: Sim
