Annotated Bibliography

Rachel F. Moran, Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 2001), pp. xii, 271.

This source provides information about the way Americans of each race live separate daily lives, and for this reason, people of the same race are more likely to marry each other. Also, employment, education, and housing are all taken into consideration why the interaction among races is limited. This source expands on the topic of racial classification of mixed races, much like the Becky's sons.

Williamson, Joel. New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.

This source provides information about the difficulty of establishing the official status of black/white and biracial people. An important topic discussed is the potential new visions of social change and how "rigid racist infrastructures might be undermined."

Hutchinson, George. "Jean Toomer and American Racial Discourses." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 35, no. 2 (summer 1993): 226-50.

This source provides more insight into the writing and studies of Jean Toomer. He focused on a newly created ethnicity, "American", which would include multiple ethnicities and heritages.

Ellinghaus, Katherine. "Reading the Personal as Political: The Assimilationist Views of a White Woman Married to a Native American Man, 1880s-1940s," Australasian Journal of American Studies 18, no. 2 (1999): 23-41

This source is beneficial to my understanding of the work in that it focuses much on other well-known literature pieces that also focus on interracial marriages and the American social attitudes toward these relationships. Also, this source includes information on court cases that were made to change those laws.

Fowler, Northern Attitudes Toward Inter-Marriage, 273-81; and Steven Selden, Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (New York: Teachers College Press, 1999)

This source provides information about how the people in these relationships could be truly happy in their relationship, but still had to face the condescending community. They had to justify themselves and their relationship decision to the intolerable public.

Ellinghaus, Katherine. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2002), pp. 55-75

This source is one of the more important pieces I found because it focuses on how the interracial relationship affects the woman figure in terms of the "worthy, prospective wife and mother" status that women should be in the society. It elaborates on multiple ways the social status of a white woman within a society would be changed by marrying a man of a different ethnicity, which is exactly like the case of Becky.