What Comes Naturally : Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
ISBN: 9780199772353 | 0199772355
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/1/2010
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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 just in the South but throughout most of the country, in the West, the North, and the Midwest. Beginning in the Reconstruction era, when the term miscegenation first was coined, Peggy Pascoe traces the creation of a racial hierarchy that bolstered white supremacy... MORE
| Maps | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Miscegenation Law and Constitutional Equality, 1863-1900 | |
| Engendering Miscegenation | p. 17 |
| Sexualizing Miscegenation Law | p. 47 |
| Miscegenation Law and Race Classification, 1860-1948 | |
| Configuring Race in the American West | p. 77 |
| The Facts of Race in the Courtroom | p. 109 |
| Seeing Like a Racial State | p. 13... MORE |
| Miscegenation Law and Its Opponents, 1913-1967 | |
| Between a Rock and a Hard Place | p. 163 |
| Interracial Marriage as a Natural Right | p. 205 |
| Interracial Marriage as a Civil Right | p. 246 |
| The Politics of Colorblindness, 1967-2000 | |
| Lionizing Loving | p. 287 |
| Conclusion: The Ghost of the Past | p. 307 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 315 |
| Abbreviations | p. 319 |
| Notes | p. 323 |
| Index | p. 391 |
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Peggy Pascoe, author of Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1929 (OUP), was Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon.
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