Category: Law

  • The (Mono-) Racial Contract: Mixed-Race Implications Canadian Political Science Association 79th Annual Conference 2007-05-30 through 2007-06-01 Paper Dated: 2007-05-17 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly a decade ago, Charles Mills brought ‘race’ into mainstream political theory through his theory of the Racial Contract; namely, that all social contracts are underwritten by the…

  • In the middle of a July night in 1958, a couple living in a small town in Virginia were awakened when a party of local police officers walked into their bedroom and arrested them for a felony violation of Virginia’s miscegenation statute. The couple had been married in the District of Columbia, which did allow…

  • The One-Drop Rule in Reverse? Interracial Marriages in Napoleonic and Restoration France Law and History Review Volume 27, Number 3 Fall 2009 University of Illinois Jennifer Heuer, Associate Professor Department of History University of Massachusetts at Amherst In the early nineteenth century, an obscure rural policeman petitioned the French government with an unusual story.  Charles…

  • Racial Ideas and Gendered Intimacies: the Regulation of Interracial Relationships in North America Social & Legal Studies Volume 18, Number 3 (September 2009) DOI: 10.1177/0964663909339087 pages 353-371 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University This article compares the regulation of interracial intimacies in North America, contending that anti-miscegenation laws in the United States…

  • How the courts dealt with wills bequeathing property or freedom to mixed race children.

  • From Wikipedia: Loving v. (versus) [Commonwealth of] Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court by a [unanimous] 9-0 vote declared [on 1967-06-12] Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute, the “Racial Integrity Act of 1924“, unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions…

  • The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review) by Ronald R. Sundstrom SUNY Press 2008, 190pp., $24.95 (pbk.) ISBN: 9780791475867 Notre Dame Philisophical Reviews 2009-06-29 Reviewed by Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.) Vanderbilt University The United States is undergoing the most profound demographic changes in the country’s history so that in a few…