Interracialism : black-white intermarriage in American history, literature, and law / edited by Werner Sollors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Sánchez-Eppler -- American theriomorphia: the presence of Mulatez in Cirilo Villaverde and beyond / Eduardo González -- 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.