Dangerous liaisons: sex and love in the segregated South

In the South after the Civil War, segregation--and race itself--was based on the idea that interracial sex posed a biological threat to the white race. In this groundbreaking book, Charles Robinson examines how white southerners enforced antimiscegenation laws. His findings challenge conventional wi...

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1. Verfasser: Robinson, Charles F. 1966- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Fayetteville University of Arkansas Press 2003
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Zusammenfassung:In the South after the Civil War, segregation--and race itself--was based on the idea that interracial sex posed a biological threat to the white race. In this groundbreaking book, Charles Robinson examines how white southerners enforced antimiscegenation laws. His findings challenge conventional wisdom, documenting a pattern of selective prosecutions under which interracial domestic relationships were punished even more harshly than transient sexual encounters.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-184) and index
Beschreibung:xv, 196 p. 24 cm
ISBN:1557287554

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