Property Rites
The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness
Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/2009
Pages: 408
Subject: History, Law, Social Science
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807894170
DESCRIPTION
Elizabeth Smith-Pryor makes extensive use of trial transcripts, in addition to contemporary newspaper coverage and archival sources, to explore why Leonard Rhinelander was allowed his day in court. She moves fluidly between 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 to show how notions of race, property, and the law were--and are--inextricably intertwined.