{"id":11067,"date":"2010-12-29T18:24:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T18:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11067"},"modified":"2015-03-13T13:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T13:43:06","slug":"dangerous-liaisons-sex-and-love-in-the-segregated-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11067","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The University of Arkansas Press
\n<\/a>2003
\n160 pages
\n6″x9″
\nPaper: 1-55728\u2013833-X (978-1-55728-833-2)
\nCloth: 1-55728-755-4 (978-1-55728-755-7)<\/p>\n

Charles F. Robinson II<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History, Vice Provost for Diversity, and Director of African American Studies program
\nUniversity of Arkansas<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the tumultuous decades after the Civil War<\/a>, as the southern white elite reclaimed power, \u201cracial mixing\u201d was the central concern of segregationists who strove to maintain \u201cracial purity.\u201d Segregation<\/a>\u2014and race itself\u2014was based on the idea that interracial sex posed a biological threat to the white race. In this groundbreaking study, Charles Robinson examines how white southerners enforced anti-miscegenation laws. His findings challenge conventional wisdom, documenting a pattern of selective prosecution under which interracial domestic relationships were punished even more harshly than transient sexual encounters. Robinson shows that the real crime was to suggest that black and white individuals might be equals, a notion which undermined the legitimacy of the economic, political, and social structure of white male supremacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robinson examines legal cases from across the South<\/a>, considering both criminal prosecutions brought by states and civil disputes over marital and family assets. He also looks at U.S. Supreme Court decisions, debates in state legislatures, comments in the U.S. Congressional Record<\/a><\/em>, and newspaper editorials. He not only shows the hardening of racial categories but assesses the attitudes of African Americans about anti-miscegenation<\/a> laws and intermarriage.<\/p>\n

Dangerous Liaisons<\/em> vividly documents the regulation of intimacy and its fundamental role in the construction of race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South The University of Arkansas Press 2003 160 pages 6″x9″ Paper: 1-55728\u2013833-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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,1467,8,17,20],"tags":[3555,4810,1462,259,2315],"class_list":["post-11067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-charles-f-robinson","tag-charles-f-robinson-ii","tag-charles-robinson","tag-marriage","tag-university-of-arkansas-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}