Category: Law

  • The Trouble with Transcendence: Is Defying the Gender Binary the New Racial Passing? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-01-21 Mallory Nicole Davis University of Oregon In 2010, Thomas Araguz III, a Texas firefighter died on the job, leaving behind his two children and transgender wife, Nikki.[1] The couple was legally married because although…

  • What Comes Naturally: A Racially Inclusive Look at Miscegenation Law Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 31, Number 3, 2010 pages 15-21 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2010.0020 Jacki Thompson Rand, Professor of History; American Indian and Native Studies University of Iowa In What Comes Naturally Peggy Pascoe interrogates the U.S. racial regime through a study of civil…

  • Concubinage Law Reaches Negro Only Lafayette Adviser Lafayette, Louisiana Friday, 1910-04-29 page 1, columns 3-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress) By Vote of 3 to 2 Supreme Court Upholds Decision of the Lower Court. LOUISIANA STATUTE HELD TO BE OF LIMITED SCOPE. Mulattoes, Quadroons and Octaroons Not  included—Opinion Read by Justice…

  • Overturning Anti-Miscegenation Laws: News Media Coverage of the Lovings’ Legal Case Against the State of Virginia Journal of Black Studies Volume 43, Number 4 (May 2012) pages 427-443 DOI: 10.1177/0021934711428070 Jennifer Hoewe College of Communications Pennsylvania State University, University Park Geri Alumit Zeldes, Associate Professor School of Journalism Michigan State University This study fills a…

  • Ellisville, Miss.—(AP)—A young veteran who served in the navy as a white man and later married a white woman has been convicted of miscegenation and sentenced to five years in prison.

  • Struck by Lightning? Interracial Intimacy and Racial Justice Human Rights Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2, May 2003 pages 528-562 DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2003.0017 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis Kristina L. Burrows Rachel F. Moran, Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (Chicago and…

  • Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge West Virginia University Press December 2013 160 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-935978-24-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-23-7 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-25-1 PDF ISBN: 978-1-938228-64-3 Original Text by Frances Harriet Whipple (1805-1878) with Elleanor Eldridge (1794-1862) Edited by: Joycelyn K. Moody, Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature and Professor of English University of Texas,…

  • Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature Duke University Press January 2014 176 pages 3 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5595-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5581-6 Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Professor of English; Professor of Law; Professor of Women’s Studies Duke University In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of…

  • A Show of Justice: Racial ‘Amalgamation’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand Auckland University Press 1974 400 pages 230 x 150 mm, illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9781869401214 Alan Ward First published in 1974, A Show of Justice remains the essential and definitive text on official policies towards the Māori people in the nineteenth century. Professor Ward shows…

  • Colloquium: Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind University of Pennsylvania 103 McNeil Building 3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6299 Wednesday, 2014-01-29, 12:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Osagie K. Obasogie, Professor of Law University of California, Hastings College of the Law Professor Obasogie’s research attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological gaps between…