Category: Law

  • Before state’s high court: role of race in identifying a face Seattle Times 2012-03-03 Ken Armstrong, Staff Reporter In a case out of Seattle’s University District, the Washington State Supreme Court is being asked to determine whether jurors should be told that eyewitnesses who identify strangers across racial lines — for example, a white man…

  • AMST 294-03  Mixed Race America: Identity, Culture, and Politics Macalester College Saint Paul, Minnesota Spring 2012 SooJin Pate This course is an introduction to the animating debates, themes, and issues in Critical Mixed Race Studies. Utilizing critical race theory and postcolonial analysis, we will examine the identities and experiences of multiracial or mixed race people,…

  • “Freedom By A Judgment”: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family Law and History Review Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 173-203 DOI: 10.1017/S0738248011000642 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina Forum: Ab Initio: Law in Early America On May 2, 1771, John Hardaway of Dinwiddie County, Virginia posted…

  • We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson Pelican Publishing Company 2003 176 pages 5½ x 8½ 20 photos – Notes – Index ISBN: 1-58980-120-2 EAN: 978-1-58980-120-2 hc Keith Weldon Medley In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy bought a first-class railway ticket from his native New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The…

  • Spoilt for choice? New Law Journal: Leading on debate, litigation & dispute resolution Vol 162, Issue 7498 2012-01-26 Adrian Jack, Barrister & Rechtsanwalt Enterprise Chambers Encouraging greater judicial diversity is no easy task, says Adrian Jack The government is consulting on creating greater diversity in the judiciary. Where candidates for judicial appointment are of similar…

  • Book Review: Go White, Young Man Vanderbilt Law Review Volume 65, En Banc 1 (2012-01-30) 10 pages Alfred L. Brophy, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law University of North Carolina School of Law Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin…

  • Batson Revisited in America’s “New Era” of Multiracial Persons Seton Hall Law Review Volume 33, Issue 1 (2003) Article 3 pages 67-108 John Terrence A. Rosenthal Since two bloods course within your veins, Both Jam’s and Japhet’s intermingling; One race forever doomed to serve, The other bearing freedom’s likeness. —Poem from Jacob Steendam to his…

  • Here, I will explore Loving’s unintended consequences by considering why the Court took so much for granted and how the opinion later was deployed in unexpected ways. After briefly examining the facts and holdings in the case, I will show that the Justices accepted monoracial categories as a given, despite evidence of multiracial complexity.

  • Looking back to Loving as the official birth of Multiracial America reinforces the prevailing memory of racial separatism while further underscoring the illegitimacy of miscegenations past. By establishing racial freedom in marriage, Loving also sets a misleading context for the history of mixed race in America. Even though Loving instigates the open acceptance of interracialism,…

  • The Loving Story Home Box Office (HBO) 2012-02-14, 21:00 EST Nancy Buirski, Director and Producer In June 2, 1958, a white man named Richard Loving and his part-black, part-Cherokee fiancée Mildred Jeter travelled from Caroline County, VA to Washington, D.C. to be married. At the time, interracial marriage was illegal in 21 states, including Virginia.…