Category: Law

  • Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America Essence.com Essence Magazine 2009-10-20 June Cross, Assistant Professor of Journalism Columbia University As if being married had anything to do with Blacks and Whites producing mixed-race children. That was my first thought upon reading that an elected official in Louisiana had refused to marry a Black man and a…

  • Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity American Quarterly Volume 53, Number 3 (September 2001) pages 420-451 E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2001.0033 Teresa Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada In July 1857 Abby Guy sued for her freedom and that of her four children in an Arkansas…

  • The Race Against Race [Book review of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”] The New Republic 2010-01-29 Richard Posner “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America” by Peggy Pascoe “Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell” by Paul A.…

  • American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 33, Number 44 (2000) pages 795-835 Leti Volpp, Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley This essay interprets the legal history of efforts to prohibit intermarriage between Filipino men and white women in the state of California in the 1920s…

  • Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring 2006) Pages 199-234 Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis & Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law University of Maryland School of Law Many legal…

  • Blood Will Tell: Scientific Racism and the Legal Prohibition Against Miscegenation Michigan Journal of Race & Law University of Michigan Law School Volume 5, Issue 2 (Spring 2000) pages 560-609 Keith Edward Sealing, Dean of Students Widener Law School, Widener University Laws banning miscegenation endured in the colonies and the United States for more than…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 University of British Columbia Press 2009-05-15 288 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774816335 Paperback ISBN: 9780774816342 Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia Contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and pluralism remain politically charged in former settler societies. Colonial Proximities historicizes these contestations by illustrating…

  • A Reappraisal of the Constitutionality of Miscegenation Statutes Cornell Law Quarterly Volume 42, Issue 2 (Winter 1957) pages 208-222 Andrew D. Weinberger, LL.B., D. HUM, Member of the New York Bar, New York City & Visiting Professor of Law Nationzal University of Mexico Today [in 1957], 21 States of the Union by statute forbid marriages…

  • Legal Transplants: Slavery and the Civil Law in Louisiana University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series Working Paper 32 May 2009 37 pages Ariela J. Gross, Professor of Law and History University of Southern California Law School Can Louisiana tell us something about civil law vs. common law regimes of slavery? What can…

  • “The Caucasian Cloak”: Mexican Americans and the Politics of Whiteness in the Twentieth-Century Southwest The Georgetown Law Journal Volume 95, Issue 2 Pages 337-392 Ariela J. Gross, Professor of Law and History University of Southern California Law School The history of Mexican Americans and Jim Crow in the Southwest suggests the danger of allowing state…