Interracial intimacies across the color line
By: Earl Smith and Angela Hattery.
Contributors: Hattery, Angela.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594604966
Subjects: Race relations -- United States -- History; Group identity -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Mildred and Richard loving : the case that changed American interracial marriage laws; title: Thomas Jefferson : father of democracy and racial ideology; title: George Washington : founding father of the United States, father of a slave?; title: Richard mentor Johnson : the inter-racial "marriage" of the vice-president; title: Frederick Douglass : abolitionist and feminist, "walking the walk"; title: Clarence Thomas : "protector" of civil rights in the 21st century; title: William Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen : love in black and white; title: Strom Thurmond : segregationist and father of a "black" daughter; title: Conclusion : what lessons can we draw?.