What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America

by Peggy Pascoe

Book Overview

A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races. Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how these laws were enacted and applied not just in the South but throughout most of the country, in the West, the North,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195094638
• ISBN13: 9780195094633
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"