ISBN:
9781469660882
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
392.509
Keywords:
Marginality, Social
;
Weddings
;
Marriage customs and rites-History
;
African Americans-Marriage customs and rites-History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Multicultural Tradition -- Chapter One. Irregular Unions: The Broomstick Wedding in the British Isles -- Chapter Two. As If They Had Been Joined by a Clergyman: Jumping the Broom and American Slavery -- Chapter Three. Don't Tell Things Like That: Matrimonial Change and Continuity after the Civil War -- Chapter Four. Into the White Mind: Jumping the Broom and Social Divisions among White Americans -- Chapter Five. Better than Nothing: Broomstick Weddings in European American Ritual Practice -- Chapter Six. No Expression as Prevalent: Civil Rights, Black Power, and Alex Haley's Roots -- Chapter Seven. Every Black Person Should Do It: The Rise of the "Heritage Wedding" -- Chapter Eight. To Create Our Own Rituals: Same-Sex Marriage and the Symbolic Value of Jumping the Broom -- Chapter Nine. Beyond Black or White: The Broomstick Wedding's Expanding Meaning -- Conclusion. Whose Heritage? Whose Culture?: The Uncertain Future of Jumping the Broom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
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