Category: United States

  • Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of “Race” in Twentieth-Century America The Journal of American History Volume 83, Number 1 (June, 1996) pages 44-69 Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010), Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History University of Oregon On March 21, 1921, Joe Kirby took his wife, Mayellen, to court. The Kirbys had been married for…

  • Race, Descent, and Tribal Citizenship California Law Review Circuit Volume 4 (April 2013) pages 23-47 Bethany R. Berger, Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law University of Connecticut What is the relationship between descent-based tribal citizenship requirements and race or racism? This essay argues that tribal citizenship laws that require Indian or tribal…

  • Regulating White Desire Wisconsin Law Review Volume 2007, Number 2 (2007) pages 463-488 Reginald Oh, Professor of Law Cleveland Marshall College of Law Cleveland State University Introduction II. Loving v. Virginia III. The Greatest Threat to the Purity of the White Race: Social Equality Through Interracial Marriage IV. Miscegenation and Segregation Laws and the Legal Enforcement…

  • Making the Modern Family: Interracial Intimacy and the Social Production of Whiteness Harvard Law Review Volume 127, Issue 5 (2014-03-17) pages 1341-1394 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law Gould School of Law University of Southern California According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family. By Angela Onwuachi-Willig. New…

  • The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) presents: (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Busboys and Poets Langston Room 14th & V Streets, NW Washington, D.C. 20009 Sunday, 2014-04-06, 17:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) Join us for a discussion with (1)ne Drop author, Yaba Blay! What exactly is Blackness? What does it mean to be…

  • An Act to Prevent Amalgamation with Colored Persons Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, No. 2 (June, 1928) Interesting Ante-bellum Laws of the Cherokees, Now Oklahoma History page 179 James W. Duncan Tahlequah, Oklahoma Be it enacted by the National Council, that intermarriage shall not be lawful between a free male or female citizen with any…

  • Natasha Trethewey Links History to Poetry at Convocation Fearless and Loathing: Oberlin’s Independent Student Website 2014-04-19 Zoey Memmert-Miller Natasha Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States spoke in Finney Chapel for the third convocation of the spring semester. She read poetry from throughout her career and spoke on the ways she understands history…

  • Penn symposium tackles race, science, and society Penn Current: News Ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania 2014-04-03 Katherine Unger Baillie Is race a biological category? How does race figure into scientific research, clinical practice, and the development and use of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals? And what can we learn from historical…

  • The Mestizo Concept: A Product of European Imperialism Onkwehón:we Rising: An Indigenouse Perspectic on Third Worldism & Revolution 2013-08-29 Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies University of California, Davis What is the concept of Mestizaje? What are its origins? What role does it have to play in the liberation, or rather the…

  • Bill to recognize Nansemonds passes committee Suffolk News-Herald Suffolk, Virginia 2014-04-02 A bill that would extend federal recognition to the Nansemond Indian Tribe and five others in Virginia passed the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday. The tribes, which also include the Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Upper Mattaponi, Rappahannock and Monacan, are officially recognized by the…