{"id":3242,"date":"2009-11-17T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T19:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2016-06-09T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:12:08","slug":"property-rites-the-rhinelander-trial-passing-and-the-protection-of-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3242","title":{"rendered":"Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=1574\" target=\"_blank\">Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uncpress.unc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of North Carolina Press<\/a><br \/>\nApril 2009<br \/>\n408 pages<br \/>\n6.125 x 9.25, 10 illus., notes, bibl., index<br \/>\nCloth ISBN\u00a0 978-0-8078-3268-4<br \/>\nPaper ISBN\u00a0 978-0-8078-5939-1<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.edu\/CAS\/History\/people\/~esmith1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Kent State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=1574\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\/images\/jackets\/large\/smithpryor_property.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1925 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kip_Rhinelander\" target=\"_blank\">Leonard [Kip] Rhinelander<\/a>, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice [Beatrice]\u00a0Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a &#8220;colored&#8221; cabman. <strong>After being married only one month, Rhinelander pressed for the dissolution of his marriage on the grounds that his wife had lied to him about her racial background. The subsequent marital annulment trial became a massive public spectacle, not only in New York but across the nation\u2014despite the fact that the state had never outlawed interracial marriage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Smith-Pryor makes extensive use of trial transcripts, in addition to contemporary newspaper coverage and archival sources, to explore why Leonard Rhinelander was allowed his day in court. She moves fluidly between legal history, a day-by-day narrative of the trial itself, and analyses of the trials place in the culture of the 1920s North to show how notions of race, property, and the law were\u2014and are\u2014inextricably intertwined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness University of North Carolina Press April 2009 408 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 10 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN\u00a0 978-0-8078-3268-4 Paper ISBN\u00a0 978-0-8078-5939-1 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Assistant Professor of History Kent State University In 1925 Leonard [Kip] Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,1467,8,17,6462,20],"tags":[1153,1432,1194,3695,1433,1154,1431,259,1445,667],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-alice-beatrice-jones","tag-alice-jones","tag-elizabeth-m-smith-pryor","tag-elizabeth-smith-pryor","tag-kip-rhinelander","tag-leonard-kip-rhinelander","tag-leonard-rhinelander","tag-marriage","tag-rhinelander-v-rhinelander","tag-university-of-north-carolina-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","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=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47481,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/47481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}