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Tag: Loving v. Virginia
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The Case of Loving v. Bigotry The New York Times 2012-01-01 Julie Bosman Photography by: Grey Villet In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in a nighttime raid in their bedroom by the sheriff of Caroline County, Va. Their crime: being married to each other. The Lovings—Mildred, who was of African-American and Native American…
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The Other Loving: Uncovering The Federal Government’s Racial Regulation of Marriage New York University Law Review Volume 86, Number 5 (November 2011) pages 1361-1443 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law University of California, Davis This Article seeks to fill a gap in legal history. The traditional narrative of the history of the American racial regulation…
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The Place of Miscegenation Laws within Historical Scholarship about Slavery The Literary Lawyer: A Forum for the Legal and Literary Communities 2011-05-17 Allen Porter Mendenhall The following post appeared at The Literary Table. Miscegenation laws, also known as anti-miscegenation laws, increasingly have attracted the attention of scholars of slavery over the last half-century. Scholarship on…
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Although anti-miscegenation laws generally have been analyzed as racial legislation, they also can tell us a great deal about intimacy. These provisions have certainly been used to define and entrench racial difference, but they are also a means to set the boundaries of sexual decency and marital propriety. Here, I will use the comparative experience…
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Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (State legislature of Virginia) The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 of Virginia, United States, was a law that had required the racial makeup of persons to be recorded at birth, and prevented marriage between “white persons” and non-white persons. The law was the most famous ban on miscegenation in the…
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The clever positioning by multiracial identity activists of the Loving marriage as the 1960s vanguards of multiraciality, promotes several troubling ideologies that should exposed and examined. These ideologies effectively distance the Lovings’ saga from the greater African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Firstly, the emphasis on the marriage of the Richard and Mildred Loving implies…
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The Love Story That Made Marriage a Fundamental Right Color Lines 2011-04-27 Asraa Mustufa The Tribeca Film Festival is under way in New York, and one featured documentary delves into the story behind the landmark civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia, which struck down Jim Crow laws meant to prevent people from openly building families…
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Notes on the state of Virginia: Africans, Indians and the paradox of racial integrity Union Institute and University June 2005 277 pages AAT 3196614 Publication Number: AAT 3196614 ISBN: 9780542425899 Arica L. Coleman, Assistant Professor of Black American Studies Unverisity of Delaware Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of…