Tag: Charles Robinson

  • Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South The University of Arkansas Press 2003 160 pages 6″x9″ Paper: 1-55728–833-X (978-1-55728-833-2) Cloth: 1-55728-755-4 (978-1-55728-755-7) Charles F. Robinson II, Associate Professor of History, Vice Provost for Diversity, and Director of African American Studies program University of Arkansas In the tumultuous decades after the Civil War, as…

  • An intensely dramatic true story, “Forsaking All Others” recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted—in defiance of society’s laws and conventions—to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge.

  • For over one hundred years–from the post–Civil War era to the post–Civil Rights era–the state of Alabama maintained a legal and social commitment to keeping blacks and whites from engaging in long-term sexual relationships with each other. Recent studies addressing the laws that barred miscegenation have shown that investigating governmental reactions to intimate interracial connections…