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1 online resource (xii, 352 pages) |
| Contents |
The criminal ban on miscegenation as a contested site -- Creating a constitutional order : 1865-82 -- The elements of miscegenation and its threat to the family : 1883-1917 -- Litigating race : 1918-28 -- Consolidating and embedding White supremacy : 1928-40 -- White power and public policy in testamentary disputes : 1914-44 -- Portraying the static state : 1941-54 -- Race and the legacy of the supremacist state |
| Summary |
"In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate the state's antimiscegenation law to the dustbin of history. The measure passed, but the margin was alarmingly slim: more than half a million voters, 40 percent of those who went to the polls, voted to retain a racist and constitutionally untenable law. Julie Novkov's Racial Union explains how and why, nearly forty years after the height of the civil rights movement, Alabama struggled to repeal its prohibition against interracial marriage---the last state in the Union to do so. Novkov's compelling history of Alabama's battle over miscegenation shows how the fight shaped the meanings of race and state over ninety years. Novkov's work tells us much about the sometimes parallel, sometimes convergent evolution of our concepts of race and state in the nation as a whole"--Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-344) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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| Subject |
Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- Alabama -- History
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Miscegenation -- Alabama -- History
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African Americans -- Alabama -- Social conditions -- History
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White supremacy movements -- Alabama -- History
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African Americans -- Alabama -- Social conditions
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation
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Miscegenation
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Race relations
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White supremacy movements
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Alabama -- Race relations -- History
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Alabama
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780472022878 |
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0472022873 |
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1282423053 |
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9781282423053 |
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9786612423055 |
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6612423056 |
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