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Book Review


Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787–1861. By Joshua D. Rothman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xvi, 341 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2768-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5440-9.)
In Notorious in the Neighborhood, Joshua D. Rothman joins recent scholars in reshaping our understanding of antebellum race and sexuality. Alternating short "interludes" with chapters, Rothman argues that Virginians paradoxically maintained white male supremacy while tolerating the crossing of the color line by hundreds of men and women of both races. Over time, Virginians became increasingly preoccupied with defining race through ancestry and, in doing so, through law. . . .
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