Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness
"Smith-Pryor uses theRhinelandertrial to weave a narrative of classification, confusion, and cultural dislocation in the Jazz Age. . . . Reveals much about how Americans in the Northeast lived in and across the color line and how, in the north as much as the south, white supremacy shaped property, place, and possibility."-Journal of Interdisciplinary History"An enjoyable book that clarifies many of the complicated social and legal issues surrounding the dissolution of the Rhinelander marriage."-The Journal of American History"Smith-Pryor tells the trial's story in play-by-play fashion, alternating those chapters with analytical interludes that describe the complexities of race in the 1920s US. . . . Recommended."-Choice"Offers a fascinating thesis of why so many white Americans in the 1920s had become anxious about the concept of passing."-FlavourMagazine