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Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness
Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor
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| #1773059 in Books | The University of North Carolina Press | 2009-05-15 | 2009-05-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.25 x.92 x7.13l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 408 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Is "whiteness" a property which can be "owned"?|By Friend of Hobbits|An excellent scholarly treatment of the Rhinelander Trial of 1924 which provides a snapshot of the manner in which definitions of race were socially constructed and contested during the inter war period of America.
The work is suitable for use in college classrooms interested in race relations prior||Offers a fascinating thesis of why so many white Americans in the 1920s had become anxious about the concept of passing.--Flavour Magazine||
Compelling.--African American ||
Offers other fascinating discussions of the ways
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--...
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