Contents

• Introduction
• The Virginia "Act to preserve racial integrity" of 1924
• "Marriage and divorce" in 1913 Arizona
• Pace v. State of Alabama, 1883
• Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 1967
• What is a white man? / Charles W. Chesnutt
• The beginnings of miscegenation of the whites and blacks /Carter G. Woodson
• Interracial marriage and the law /William D. Zabel
• Representing miscegenation law /Eva Saks
• Racial purity and interracial sex in the law of colonial and antebellum Virginia /A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.,Barbara K. Kopytoff
• The enforcement of anti-miscegenation laws /Randall Kennedy
• Reading race, rhetoric, and the female body in the Rhinelander case /Jamie L. Wacks
• Miscegenation law, court cases, and ideologies of "race" in twentieth-century America /Peggy Pascoe
• Terms from the Oxford English dictionary
• The miscegenation issue in the election of 1864 /Sidney Kaplan
• American literary tradition and the Negro /Alain Locke
• From "Negro character as seen by white authors" / Sterling A. Brown
• The mulatto in American fiction / Penelope Bullock
• The "tragic octoroon" in pre-Civil War fiction /Jules Zanger
• The serpent of lust in the southern garden /William Bedford Clark
• Miscegenation in the late nineteenth-century American novel /William L. Andrews
• The tragic mulatto theme in six works of Langston Hughes /Arthur P. Davis
• Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson /Langston Hughes
• Of African queens and Afro-American princes and princesses: miscegenation in Old Hepsy /Simone Vauthier
• Othello in America: the drama of racial intermarriage /Tilden G. Edelstein
• Jean Toomer and American racial discourse /George Hutchinson
• Victims of likeness: quadroons and octoroons in southern fiction /Glenn Cannon Arbery
• Bodily bonds: the intersecting rhetorics of feminism and abolition /Karen Snchez-Eppler
• American theriomorphia: the presence of Mulatez in Cirilo Villaverde and beyond /Eduardo Gonzlez
• Statistics of black-white intermarriage rates in the United States
• Miscegenation /W.E.B. Du Bois
• Intermarriage and the social structure: fact and theory /Robert K. Merton
• Reflections on Little Rock /Hannah Arendt
• Black men, white women: a philosophical view /William H. Turner
• Reflecting the changing face of America: multiracials, racial classification, and American intermarriage /Joel Perlmann