Category: Law

  • Miscegenation in South Africa Cahiers d’études africaines Volume 1, Number 4 (1960) pages 68-84 DOI: 10.3406/cea.1960.3680 Pierre L. Van Den Berghe University of Natal A number of related factors make the Union of South Africa an ideal object of investigation in the field of miscegenation. The exceptionally virulent brand of racism that has developed in…

  • Mixed messages: ‘mixed race’ representations in film Concordia University August 2004 124 pages Naomi Angel The growing interest in issues pertaining to mixed race identities and communities, as well as a surge in films with mixed race characters has prompted this examination of representations of mixed race characters in film from the 1950s to the…

  • Blood Quantum Land Laws and the Race versus Political Identity Dilemma California Law Review Volume 96 (2008) pages 801-838 Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor of Law Hofstra University Modern equal protection doctrine treats laws that make distinctions on the basis of indigeneity defined on blood quantum terms along a racial versus political paradigm. This dichotomy…

  • Tribal Rights vs. Racial Justice: Was the Cherokee Nation’s expulsion of black Freedmen an act of tribal sovereignty or of racial discrimination? The New York Times Room for Debate 2011-09-15 Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law Michigan State University Cara Cowan-Watts, Acting Speaker Cherokee Nation Tribal…

  • The Mixed-Race Experience: Treatment of Racially Miscategorized Individuals under Title VII Asian American Law Review University of California Volume 12 (2005) Ken Nakasu Davison This article argues that the static legal construction of race has the dangerous potential to permit cases of racially-based discrimination, thus circumventing its prohibition in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.…

  • Choosing to be Multiracial in America: The Sociopolitical Implications of the “Check All That Apply” Approach to Race in the 2000 U.S. Census Berkeley La Raza Law Journal Volume 21 (2011) Alaina R. Walker I. INTRODUCTION Race in America has long been a contentious subject, especially when the government has been involved. Race can mean…

  • Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-09-06 Katti Gray In the summer of 1993, as American-born Daniel Sharfstein registered Blacks to cast their first ballot in race-riven South Africa, he volunteered alongside a South African woman, who professed to be as authentically African as any…

  • Are you white enough? Salon.com 2008-11-10 Laura Miller, Senior Writer From Jim Crow laws to workplace discrimination, the history of race and the American courtroom is incendiary. Come January, Barack Obama will be sworn in as either the first black president of the United States or the 44th white one, or both, or neither, depending…

  • Last week, the Alabama Senate voted to repeal the state’s constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage, 32 years after the Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s similar ban. Hadn’t these archaic laws gone out with Bull Connor? I asked myself as I read the news account. And haven’t we been hearing that America has rediscovered the melting…

  • Shades of Fraternity: Creolization and the Making of Citizenship in French India, 1790–1792 French Historical Studies Volume 31, Number 4 (2008) pages 581-607 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2008-007 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia On October 16, 1790, a group of topas men wrote a petition to the Colonial Assembly at Pondichéry, protesting…