{"id":43595,"date":"2015-10-29T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43595"},"modified":"2015-10-29T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:50:09","slug":"racial-passing-and-the-rhinelander-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43595","title":{"rendered":"Racial Passing and the Rhinelander Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cofc.edu\/american-novel\/2015\/02\/10\/racial-passing-and-the-rhinelander-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Passing and the Rhinelander Case<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cofc.edu\/american-novel\/great-american-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">English 365: The &#8220;Great&#8221; American Novel: 1900-1965: Prof. VZ<\/a><br \/>\nCollege of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina<br \/>\n2015-02-10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke Fortune<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cofc.edu\/american-novel\/2015\/02\/10\/racial-passing-and-the-rhinelander-case\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbisimages.com\/images\/Corbis-U100465P-A.jpg?size=67&amp;uid=483ebe25-1cbf-4816-a9c9-86194c4a46ae\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Alice Jones with her parents<\/small><\/p>\n<p>On page 101 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2508\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Passing<\/em><\/a>, Irene references the widely publicized case of <em>Rhinelander vs. Rhinelander<\/em> (\u201cWhat if Bellew should divorce Clare? Could he? There was the Rhinelander case\u201d). Occurring in the 1920\u2019s, the Rhinelander Case remains one of the most well-known controversies surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">racial passing<\/a>, and would have been well within the memories of the novel\u2019s initial audience. Ensuing information for this post is sourced from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kip_Rhinelander#Divorce_trial\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.udayton.edu\/race\/04needs\/sex05.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1924, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kip_Rhinelander\" target=\"_blank\">Leonard Rhinelander<\/a>, a member of one of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York\" target=\"_blank\">New York\u2019s<\/a> wealthiest and prominent families, married Alice Beatrice Jones, a multiracial <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maid\" target=\"_blank\">chambermaid<\/a>. Alice had been brought up against a predominantly white background, attending white churches and socializing with primarily white people\u2014a fact that led the Jones\u2019s non-white neighbors to denounce the family as trying to pass. Due to Rhinelander\u2019s social status, curiosity amassed around the figure of his new wife, and it was eventually revealed and published that Jones\u2019s father was black. Under pressure from his father, Leonard Rhinelander then sought to have his marriage annulled on the grounds that Jones had hidden her racial identity, passing herself off as a white woman&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Red the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cofc.edu\/american-novel\/2015\/02\/10\/racial-passing-and-the-rhinelander-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial Passing and the Rhinelander Case English 365: The &#8220;Great&#8221; American Novel: 1900-1965: Prof. VZ College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina 2015-02-10 Brooke Fortune Alice Jones with her parents On page 101 of Passing, Irene references the widely publicized case of Rhinelander vs. Rhinelander (\u201cWhat if Bellew should divorce Clare? Could he? There was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,6462,20],"tags":[1153,1432,14697,21692,21691,1431,21690],"class_list":["post-43595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-alice-beatrice-jones","tag-alice-jones","tag-alice-jones-rhinelander","tag-brooke-fortune","tag-english-365-the-great-american-novel-1900-1965-prof-vz","tag-leonard-rhinelander","tag-rhinelander-vs-rhinelander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43595","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=43595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43596,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43595\/revisions\/43596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}