Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Loving v. Virginia
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Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law: An American History Palgrave Macmillan 2002 336 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 16-page b/w photo insert ISBN: 978-1-4039-6408-3, ISBN10: 1-4039-6408-4 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States,…
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Deciding on Doctrine: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes and the Development of Equal Protection Analysis Virginia Law Review Number 95, Issue 3 (May 2009) pages 627-665 Rebecca Schoff University of Virginia School of Law In 1967, the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States were in complete agreement that the statutory scheme before them in Loving…
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The Loving opinion treated race as a monolithic and meaningful category, even though the realities of the case itself subverted this account. The litigation arose in Caroline County, Virginia, a place called the “passing capital of America” because so many light-skinned blacks were mistaken for whites. In addition, the Jeters made clear that “Richard [wasn’t]…