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Racial union: law, intimacy, and the White state in Alabama, 1865-1954

Julie Novkov
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Chapter 1: The Criminal Ban on Miscegenation as a Contested Site (page 1)
    • Regulating Interracial Intimacy and Building the State: Ninety Years of Bounded Development (page 3)
    • Antebellum Regulation of Interracial Intimacy (page 9)
    • State-Level Political Development and the Construction of Identity (page 12)
    • Alabama as a Significant Site (page 14)
    • Regulating Interracial Intimacy and the Development of the Supremacist State (page 22)
  • Chapter 2: Creating a Constitutional Order: 1865-82 (page 29)
    • Political and Social Upheaval (page 30)
    • The Threat of Interracial Relationships (page 37)
    • Ellis v. State and the Initiation of the Struggle (page 40)
    • Burns v. State and the Interpretive Challenge (page 44)
    • Ford, Green, and Hoover: Chipping Away at Burns (page 48)
    • Pace and Cox v. State and Pace v. Alabama: Constituting the State (page 58)
    • The New Constitutional Order and the Cornerstones of White Supremacy (page 65)
  • Chapter 3: The Elements of Miscegenation and Its Threat to the Family: 1883-1917 (page 68)
    • Political Consolidation, the Constitution of 1901, and Supremacist Ideology (page 69)
    • Racial Mixing, White Supremacy, and Violence (page 74)
    • Evidentiary Considerations and the Elements of Miscegenation (page 80)
    • The Relationship between Interracial Intimacy and Adultery or Fornication (page 81)
    • Confessing Miscegenation (page 87)
    • Establishing Female and Male; Establishing Black and White (page 91)
    • Interracial Rape (page 93)
    • The Constitutionalization and Formalization of White Supremacy (page 102)
  • Chapter 4: Litigating Race: 1918-28 (page 108)
    • Democratic Hegemony in Alabama's Politics (page 110)
    • The Birth of a Nation and the Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (page 111)
    • The Triumph of Eugenics and the Threat of Racial Mixing (page 116)
    • Eugenics as an Opportunity for Black Defendants (page 121)
    • Metcalf and Rollins: Establishing Whiteness (page 124)
    • Reed and Wilson: The Debate Expands (page 128)
    • Weaver v. State and the Effort to Achieve Judicial Resolution (page 137)
    • The Statutory Redefinition of Race (page 141)
    • The Battle over Racial Definition: Resolving Heredity with Common Understandings (page 143)
  • Chapter 5: Consolidating and Embedding White Supremacy: 1928-40 (page 148)
    • Politics and Society in Alabama during the Depression (page 150)
    • Politics and Race in the Late 1920s and 1930s (page 152)
    • Alabama's National Scandals: Scottsboro and Hugo Black (page 155)
    • Jesse Williams and the Continued Struggle over Racial Definition (page 159)
    • Legitimately Proving the Sexual Act and the Intention behind It: Jackson, Fields, and Murphy (page 171)
    • Bailey and Rogers and the Question of Parallel Outcomes (page 180)
    • Depression-Era Evidentiary Refinements and the Rationalization of Prejudice (page 182)
  • Chapter 6: White Power and Public Policy in Testamentary Disputes: 1914-44 (page 188)
    • Earlier Doctrine Regarding Interracial Transfers of Wealth (page 190)
    • Background Legal Principles Governing Challenges to Wills (page 192)
    • Allen v. Scruggs: Providing for the Children (page 200)
    • Mathews v. Stroud: The Primacy of the Testator's Intention (page 208)
    • Dees v. Metts: Does Public Policy Prohibit Interracial Inheritance? (page 210)
    • What About Black Property Owners? (page 220)
    • Legitimation and White Male Control over Property (page 223)
  • Chapter 7: Portraying the Static State: 1941-54 (page 228)
    • Politics and the Hesitant New Progressivism (page 229)
    • War and Its Implications (page 233)
    • Early Stirrings of the Civil Rights Movement (page 235)
    • Framing Relationships and Avoiding Racialized Debate: Jordan, Brewer and Gilbert (page 239)
    • The Necessity of Proving Intercourse: Griffith (page 247)
    • Agnew and the Court's Final World on the Problem of Prejudice and Racial Definition (page 250)
    • Constitutional Challenges Arise Again: Jackson and Rogers (page 255)
    • The State Courts' Final Words on Miscegenation (page 261)
  • Chapter 8: Race and the Legacy of the Supremacist State (page 266)
    • The Demise of Criminal Sanctions against Interracial Intimacy (page 267)
    • Alabama's Final Repudiation of the Formal Ban on Interracial Marriage (page 275)
    • The Ban on Interracial Intimacy and the Construction of Race and Gender (page 278)
    • The Ban on Interracial Intimacy and the Process of State Building (page 287)
    • The Law and Its Agents (page 295)
  • Afterword: The Analogy between Bans on Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage—A Usable Past? (page 300)
    • What Work Can the Analogy Do? (page 314)
  • Bibliography (page 319)
  • Index (page 345)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
LSR 43.2 (2009): 445-447 http://www.jstor.org/stable/29734200
Citable Link
Published: c2008
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780472098859 (hardcover)
  • 9780472068852 (paper)
  • 9780472022878 (ebook)
Subject
  • Political Science
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