Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness

by ElizabethM.Smith-Pryor (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $49.28

  In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a 'colored' cabman. This title explains legal history, a day-by-day narrative of the trial itself, and analyses of the trial's place in the culture of the 1920s North.