Race Mixing : : Black-White Marriage in Postwar America / / Renee Christine Romano.
Marriage between blacks and whites is a longstanding and deeply ingrained taboo in American culture. On the eve of World War II, mixed-race marriage was illegal in most states. Yet, sixty years later, black-white marriage is no longer illegal or a divisive political issue, and the number of such cou...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Explaining a Taboo
- 1 The Unintended Consequences of War
- 2 The Dangers of "Race Mixing"
- 3 Ambivalent Acceptance
- 4 Not Just Commies and Beatniks
- 5 Culture Wars and Schoolhouse Doors
- 6 The Rights Revolutions and Interracial Marriage
- 7 Talking Black and Sleeping White
- 8 Eroded but Not Erased
- Epilogue: Is Love the Answer?
- Notes
- Index