Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness - Couverture souple

Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807832685 ISBN 13 : 9780807832684

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2009

Synopsis

This title provides transcripts that offer new insights on the infamous trial. In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a 'colored' cabman. After being married only one month, Rhinelander pressed for the dissolution of his marriage on the grounds that his wife had lied to him about her racial background. The subsequent marital annulment trial became a massive public spectacle, not only in New York but across the nation - despite the fact that the state had never outlawed interracial marriage.Elizabeth Smith-Pryor makes extensive use of trial transcripts, in addition to contemporary newspaper coverage and archival sources, to explore why Leonard Rhinelander was allowed his day in court. She moves fluidly between legal history, a day-by-day narrative of the trial itself, and analyses of the trial's place in the culture of the 1920s North to show how notions of race, property, and the law were - and are - inextricably intertwined.

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À propos de l?auteur

ELIZABETH SMITH-PRYOR is assistant professor of history at Kent State University. She practiced law in New York for six years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807832685
• ISBN 13: 9780807832684
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408
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