Category: Law

  • Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia struck a resonant historical note last year when he proclaimed June 12 “Loving Day,” in commemoration of Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court decision that invalidated state laws across the country that restricted interracial marriage.

  • “Race, Space, and the Law” belongs to a growing field of exploration that spans critical geography, sociology, law, education, and critical race and feminist studies. Writers who share this terrain reject the idea that spaces, and the arrangement of bodies in them, emerge naturally over time. Instead, they look at how spaces are created and…

  • All across Indian Country, Native Americans are being evicted from their tribes, with little warning and little legal recourse.

  • LC lecturer looks back on landmark court case on mixed-race marriage The News & Advance Lynchburg, Virginia 2017-02-22 Josh Moody Today Americans enjoy the Constitutional right to marry regardless of race — but it wasn’t always so, and landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia can be thanked for breaking down that barrier. The famous…

  • Before Loving, there was Kinney in Augusta County The News Leader Staunton, Virginia 2017-01-08 Dale M. Brumfield, Special to The News Leader “By the laws of Virginia (C. V. 1873, ch. 105, § 1), all marriages between a white person and a negro are absolutely void…” —Kinney v. Commonwealth, Oct. 3, 1878, Supreme Court of…

  • ‘Loving’ and Virginia: a timeline of mixed-race marriage The Richmond Times-Dispatch 2017-02-19 The movie “Loving” tells the story of a mixed-race Caroline County couple – and an important story about Virginia itself. We asked the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for some insight into Richard and Mildred Loving, as well as state history. Here is a…

  • Historically, mixed couples and people of mixed descent have been seen as a problem, in popular culture as well as in academic literature. ‘Ethnically’ and ‘racially’ mixed relationships were described as dominated by power imbalances and as devoid of love. This perspective was brought to bear upon relationships and marriages in colonial times and in…

  • The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts by Amber D. Moulton (review) The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 6, Number 4, December 2016 pages 594-596 DOI: 10.1353/cwe.2016.0075 Tamika Y. Nunley, Assistant Professor of History Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts. By Amber D. Moulton.…

  • “(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader,” edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions.

  • Construction of Race and Class Buffers in the Structure of Immigration Controls and Laws Oregon Law Review Volume 76 (1997) pages 731-764 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University In the midst of current anti-immigration sentiment, which is motivating dramatic changes in the United States immigration laws, there exists the myth that prior immigration…