What comes naturally : miscegenation law and the making of race in America

What comes naturally : miscegenation law and the making of race in America / Peggy Pascoe.

Synopsis: A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States-laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, and which were enacted and applied not ju...

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Main Author: Pascoe, Peggy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, England ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Racially mixed people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
Miscegenation > United States > History.
Interracial marriage > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Miscegenation law and constitutional equality, 1863-1900
  • 1: Engendering miscegenation
  • 2: Sexualizing miscegenation law
  • Part 2: Miscegenation law and race classification, 1860-1948
  • 3: Configuring race in the American West
  • 4: Facts of race in the courtroom
  • 5: Seeing like a racial state
  • Part 3: Miscegenation law and its opponents, 1913-1967
  • 6: Between a rock and a hard place
  • 7: Interracial marriage as a natural right
  • 8: Interracial marriage as a civil right
  • Part 4: Politics of colorblindness, 1967-2000
  • 9: Lionizing loving
  • Conclusion: Ghost of the past
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index.

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