Tag: Loving v. Virginia

  • The Election of Barack Obama and the Politics of Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage History News Network 2009-02-23 Peggy Pascoe, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History University of Oregon Peggy Pascoe is the author of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”, (winner of 5 literary prizes). The election (and now…

  • The Law: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Repugnant Indeed Time Magazine 1967-06-23 Judge Leon Bazile looked down at Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving as they stood before him in 1959 in the Caroline County, Va. courtroom. “Almighty God,” he intoned, “created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. The…

  • “Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife” Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 8, Issue 1 (April 2006) pages 67-80 DOI: 10.1080/10999940500516983 Arica L. Coleman, Assistant Professor of Black American Studies Unverisity of Delaware The article reexamines the Loving V. Virginia…

  • Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 21, Number 2 (1988) pages 421-452 Paul A. Lombardo, Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law Georgia State University This Essay explores private correspondence contained in a restricted manuscript collection along with contemporary news accounts and government documents to…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States Organization of American Historians Magazine of History Volume 15, Number 4, Summer 2001 pages 80-84 Bárbara C. Cruz, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida, Tampa Michael J. Berson, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida People of mixed heritage have…

  • 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]…

  • Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law University of North Carolina Press December 2009 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3318-6 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-0727-6 Fay Botham, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies University of Iowa In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United…