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Tell the court I love my wife : race, marriage, and law : an American history
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- Creator
- Peter Wallenstein
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Palgrave, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780312294748, 0312294743
- OCLC
- ocm49952027
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-295) and index.
- Introduction: "That's No Good Here" -- Pt. 1. Abominable Mixture and Spurious Issue -- 1. Sex, Marriage, Race, and Freedom in the Early Chesapeake -- 2. Indian Foremothers and Freedom Suits in Revolutionary Virginia -- 3. From the Chesapeake Colonies to the State of California -- 4. Race, Marriage, and the Crisis of the Union -- Pt. 2. Equal Protection of the Laws -- 5. Post-Civil War Alabama -- 6. Reconstruction and the Law of Interracial Marriage -- 7. Accommodating the Law of Freedom to the Law of Race -- 8. Interracial Marriage and the Federal Courts, 1857-1917 -- Interlude: Polygamy, Incest, Fornication, Cohabitation - and Interracial Marriage -- Pt. 3. Problem of the Color Line -- 9. Drawing and Redrawing the Color Line -- 10. Boundaries - Race and Place in the Law of Marriage -- 11. Racial Identity and Family Property -- 12. Miscegenation Laws, the NAACP, and the Federal Courts, 1941-1963 -- Pt. 4. If the Right to Marry Is a Fundamental Right -- 13. A Breakthrough Case in California -- 14. Contesting the Antimiscegenation Regime - the 1960s -- 15. Virginia versus the Lovings - and the Lovings versus Virginia -- 16. America after Loving v. Virginia -- Epilogue: The Color of Love after Loving -- App. 1. Permanent Repeal of State Miscegenation Laws, 1780-1967 -- App. 2. Intermarriage in Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa -- App. 3. Identity and Authority: An Interfaith Couple in Israel -- App. 4. Transsexuals, Gender Identity, and the Law of Marriage