Notorious in the Neighborhood
Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
Joshua D. Rothman
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/2003
Pages: 358
Subject: History, Social Science
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807863121
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White Virginians allowed for an astonishing degree of flexibility and fluidity within a seemingly rigid system of race and interracial relations, Rothman argues, and the relationship between law and custom regarding racial intermixture was always shifting. As a consequence, even as whites never questioned their own racial supremacy, the meaning and significance of racial boundaries, racial hierarchy, and ultimately of race itself always stood on unstable ground--a reality that whites understood and about which they demonstrated increasing anxiety as the nation's sectional crisis intensified.
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