"Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected white Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards…
"Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected White Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards…
Introduction: "The marriage certificate"--"Until distance do you part" -- "God made marriage, but the white man made the law" -- Marriage rights require more than manumission -- Marriage "under the flag" -- A civil war over marriage -- Reconstructing intimacies -- "To correct as…
Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected White Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards …
"Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected white Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards…
by Hall, Stuart, Bennett, Joshua, Appiah, Kwame Anthony, Shelby, Tommie, Gordon-Reed, Annette, Abraham Jack, Anthony, Bald, Vivek, Baradaran, Mehrsa, Blackhawk, Ned, Feetwood, Nicole R., Feimster, Crystal N., Gibran Muhammad, Khalil, Hinton, Elizabeth, Hunter, Tera W., JOHNSON, Walter, Lentz-Smith, Adriane, Lew-Williams, Beth, Morrison, Toni, Muñoz Martinez, Monica, Sturkey, William, White, Augustus A.
Racism in America has been the subject of serious scholarship for decades. At Harvard University Press, we've had the honor of publishing some of the most influential books on the subject. The excerpts in this volume-culled from works of history, law, sociology, medicine, econom…