Category: Law

  • Blinded By the Light; But Now I See Western New England Law Review Western New England College Volume 20, Issue 2 (1998) pages 491-504 Leonard M. Baynes, Professor of Law and Inaugural Director of The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development St. Johns University Introduction In the United States, interracial discrimination…

  • Red and Black – A Divided Seminole Nation: Davis v. U.S. Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy University of Kansas School of Law Volume 14, Number 3 (Spring 2006) pages 607-638 Joyce A. McCray Pearson, Director, Law Library and Associate Professor of Law University of Kansas One of the longest unwritten chapters in the history…

  • Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity Duke University Press 2008 264 pages 5 photographs, 2 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Wesleyan University In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those…

  • Reading between the (Blood) Lines Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (2010) pages 473-494 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Legal scholars and historians have depicted the rule of hypodescent—that “one drop” of African blood categorized one as Black—as one of the powerful ways that law and society…

  • Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South New York University Press 2010-04-23 304 pages 13 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814791325 Paperback ISBN: 9780814791332 Leslie Bow, Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 (review) Canadian Journal of Law and Society Volume 25, Number 1, 2010 E-ISSN: 1911-0227 Print ISSN: 0829-3201 DOI: 10.1353/jls.0.0104 Eve Darian-Smith, Professor of Law and Society University of California, Santa Barbara Colonial Proximities is a scholarly, innovative, and illuminating exploration of law, race, and…

  • The true story of a slave who became the wealthiest black woman in the South

  • Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century W. W. Norton and Company April 2010 590 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-93070-2 Hazel Rose Markus (Editor) Stanford University Paula M. L. Moya (Editor) Stanford University A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to…

  • 2010 Hurst Prize Winner: Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally Legal History Blog 2010-06-03 Mary L. Dudziak, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science University of Southern California Peggy Pascoe, University of Oregon, Department of History, has won the Willard Hurst Prize for 2010 from the Law and Society…

  • The Law: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Repugnant Indeed Time Magazine 1967-06-23 Judge Leon Bazile looked down at Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving as they stood before him in 1959 in the Caroline County, Va. courtroom. “Almighty God,” he intoned, “created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. The…