Thanks! Yes this case wasn’t a hidden secret. The Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen references it in her novel, Passing. I did see the NYT writer intends to write a play. There are multiple scholarly works on it as well as fiction based on it too!

Thanks for reposting! It’s a book that meant a lot personally and professionally. Personally because like Alice R, my parents were an interracial couple who married in NY decades later.I hoped to use history to understand American ideas about race, marriage, and mixed race children.

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I’m a history professor and former attorney who spent a lot of time researching and writing this book. First as a dissertation and then as a book. It’s the first book on the Rhinelander trial to use the trial transcript as a major sourc!

If you want to learn more about this trial and what it tells us about Americans and race 100 years ago at a time similar to our own, check out Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness. www.amazon.com/Property-Rit...

In opposition to the law I argued the legislature was deliberately calling for people to troll faculty. BTW one key piece of these syllabi requirements is who is making money. The usual-ed tech bros! Simple Syllabus is a company many universities are contracting with to make syllabi public.

Here in Ohio a new state law requires faculty at public universities to create syllabi searchable by the public. Our syllabi must include our credentials (!) and contact info. They must also include a course calendar id’ing materials/topics for specific dates. When I submitted testimony . . .

Teaching the same this spring. I’m especially looking forward to the era of the Revolution given the 250th. Plus, promoting a close reading of the Declaration of Independence by students does seem timely and important!

Gold Rush apples—a relatively modern variety. Tart but complex flavor and definitely not mushy! Nice and crisp and not one note. My favorite late fall apple and they are good keepers too!

But Senator Husted promised in his July 3 email that the bill would help working Ohioans and their families and it was “prioritizing working Americans.” Somehow I’m not surprised he was bs’ing. He can delete his social media post but my inbox lives on. Can’t wait to vote against him in 2026

Nice flower and bow! She’s celebrating your birthday I can tell. Good dog!

Nice! I bought the 503a also a Rocketeer at an estate sale last year for about $100. Got it cleaned and it runs great. I love the quality of stitching I get with it, the fact there’s no tech and with the manual I can even do some basic repair. It’s also super cool to look at 🚀 very early 1960s!

We have one too! Their space takes up a portion of an entire floor of the university library. Why have books when you can have esports? I hate to think about how much money went towards creating the space, the fancy computers and some serious gaming chairs.And it’s almost impossible to order books🙁

Agreed! I would go a step further to say not just that the protection of property “shapes” these things but that the drive to protect property as the main goal behind our political system is deeply embedded in our constitutional/legal structures. Making justice/equality real requires changing them.

Me too! Grew up there and left by early 90s. Try to never, ever go back.

🗃️ Forgot the pic of bumper sticker!

Can’t blame them at all! My daughter has 1 more year at an Ohio uni and won’t consider staying for graduate school. I live in Ohio and am considering retiring elsewhere once she graduates. The state legislature is too gerrymandered and will hang on to power as long as they can and ruin the state.

Awesome! I was in Ravenna and then in Kent. Pretty good size crowds! We dodged the rain thank goodness!