Tag: Kip Rhinelander

  • Inspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this captivating novel tells the story of a pioneering Black journalist, a secret interracial marriage among the New York elite, and the sensational divorce case that ignited an explosive battle over race and class—and brought together three very different women fighting…

  • However, there is a much lesser-known court case that dealt with interracial marriage many years before in New York City: Rhinelander v Rhinelander.

  • EXCLUSIVE: It’s a great story that delves into the caste system, racism and sexism. The Rhinelander Affair, written by William Kinsolving, follows the controversial 1925 divorce trial in New York involving a man from an upper-class New Rochelle family who married a bi-racial, working-class woman. It is a ripped from the headlines story from the…

  • Bodies Under Re/view? Mediating Racial Blackness InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture 2013-08-20 Tiffany E. Barber, Adjunct Instructor African and African American Studies University of Oklahoma “In our allegedly postracial moment, where simply talking about racism openly is considered an impolitic, if not racist, thing to do, we constantly learn and re-learn racial…

  • When One Of New York’s Glitterati Married A ‘Quadroon’ Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-07 Theodore R. Johnson III Coverage of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s recent nuptial ceremony was only remarkable in what most reporters left out: he’s black, and she isn’t. The generalized lack of interest in…

  • The Trouble with Transcendence: Is Defying the Gender Binary the New Racial Passing? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-01-21 Mallory Nicole Davis University of Oregon In 2010, Thomas Araguz III, a Texas firefighter died on the job, leaving behind his two children and transgender wife, Nikki.[1] The couple was legally married because although…

  • What Interracial and Gay Couples Know About ‘Passing’ The Atlantic 2013-07-31 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa As I awaited news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in the same-sex marriage cases last month, I began to reflect on all of the daily privileges that I receive…

  • When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York’s wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation—and forced the couple into…

  • Kip And Alice Rhinelander Social Error New York Daily News 1999-05-02 07:10Z Jay Maeder, Daily News Staff Writer From Germany to the New World came the Rhinelanders in the year 1696, and here they settled New Rochelle and begat. They were quite meticulous about it. For 200 years, naught but the proudest blood streamed through…

  • Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye ND Newswire University of Notre Dame 2001-05-31 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Notre Dame Earl Lewis, Provost Emory University Lovers seek to create a place that they can inhabit together against the obstacles of the world. Marriage promises that they will live in…