Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South

Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South
ISBN-10
155728833X
ISBN-13
9781557288332
Series
Dangerous Liaisons
Category
Social Science
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2006-01-01
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Author
Charles Frank Robinson

Description

In the South after the Civil War, segregation--and race itself--was based on the idea that interracial sex posed a biological threat to the white race. In this groundbreaking book, Charles Robinson examines how white southerners enforced antimiscegenation laws. His findings challenge conventional wisdom, documenting a pattern of selective prosecutions under which interracial domestic relationships were punished even more harshly than transient sexual encounters.

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