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    "Who Was Your Grandfather on Your Mother's Side?" Seduction, Race, and Gender in 1932 Virginia

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    Nicolas, Taylor
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    Race; Gender; Virginia Supreme Court; Wood v. Commonwealth of Virginia
    
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    Was Dorothy Short Black? And, more importantly, did she know it? These questions, odd-sounding and perhaps unsettling to the contemporary reader, were the ones raised by Leonard Harry Wood in the hopes of avoiding prison for the crime of seduction. This Article examines the story of Dorothy Short and Leonard Wood, their relationship, and the criminal case that followed it in order to explore the ways in which seduction laws worked to create ( and recreate) gendered categories of race. The Article's main contribution is shedding new light on the 1932 Virginia Supreme Court case Wood v. Commonwealth of Virginia, and more broadly on the ways in which seduction jurisprudence influenced racialized understandings of gender.
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