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Print Price: $85.95

Format:
Paperback
560 pp.
221 mm x 150 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195128574

Publication date:
September 2000

Imprint: OUP US


Interracialism

Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law

Edited by Werner Sollors

Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity. Ranging from Hannah Arendt to George Schuyler and from Pace v. Alabama to Loving v. Virginia, it provides extraordinary resources for faculty and students in English, American and Ethnic Studies as well as for general readers interested in race relations. By bringing together a selection of historically significant documents and of the best essays and scholarship on the subject of "miscegenation," interracialism demonstrates that notions of race can be fruitfully approached from the vantage point of the denial of interracialism that typically informs racial ideologies.

Reviews

  • "A fascinating survey of legal decisions, literary criticism and essays by writers and scholars including Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois and Randall Kennedy."--Salon.com
  • "Werner Sollors had given us a gift, a unique collection of essays covering the most significant and most difficult aspect of race in American history. Interracialism is the standard reader for all those interested in this central issue in American culture."--American Studies International, October 2001

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Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and African-American Studies, and Director of the History of American Civilization Program at Harvard University.

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Special Features

  • This collection features some of the most pivotal discussions of interracialsim in history and society, literature and art, law and the census