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  • Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand

    Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand Auckland University Press July 2013 312 pages approx 240 x 170 mm, illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-1-86940-731-5 Angela Wanhalla, Senior Lecturer in History University of Otago, New Zealand A history of the intimate relations between Māori and Pākehā, and the intersections of public policy…

  • The Anti-Miscegenation History of the American Southwest, 1837 To 1970: Transforming Racial Ideology into Law

    The Anti-Miscegenation History of the American Southwest, 1837 To 1970: Transforming Racial Ideology into Law Cultural Dynamics Volume 20, Number 3 (November 2008) pages 279-318 DOI: 10.1177/0921374008096312 Martha Menchaca, Professor of Anthropology University of Texas at Austin This article proposes that a historical analysis of court cases and state statutes can be used to illustrate…

  • Changing Family Structures in America [Project Description]

    Changing Family Structures in America [Project Description] US 2010: Discover America in a New Century 2010 Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University The US 2010 research project examines changes in American societ in the recent past.  Directed by sociologist John Logan, US 2010 is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and Brown University. Qian…

  • Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South

    Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South The University of Arkansas Press 2003 160 pages 6″x9″ Paper: 1-55728–833-X (978-1-55728-833-2) Cloth: 1-55728-755-4 (978-1-55728-755-7) Charles F. Robinson II, Associate Professor of History, Vice Provost for Diversity, and Director of African American Studies program University of Arkansas In the tumultuous decades after the Civil War, as…

  • Social Status, Race, and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba’s First Constitutional Era, 1902-1940

    Social Status, Race, and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba’s First Constitutional Era, 1902-1940 Journal of Family History Volume 36, Number 1 (December 2010) pages 52-71 DOI: 10.1177/0363199010389546 Enid Lynette Logan, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis This article examines the practice of marriage among whites, mestizos, blacks, Cubans, and Spaniards during the…

  • The Election of Barack Obama and the Politics of Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage

    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…

  • Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston

    Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 94th Annual Convention Association for the Study of African American Life and History Hilton Cincinnati, Netherland Plaza Cincinnati, Ohio 2009-09-30 Zebulon V. Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York…

  • The Law: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Repugnant Indeed

    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…

  • Black Women See Fewer Black Men at the Altar

    Black Women See Fewer Black Men at the Altar The New York Times 2010-06-03 Sam Roberts It is a familiar lament of single African-American women: where are the “good” black men to marry? A new study shows that more and more black men are marrying women of other races. In fact, more than 1 in…

  • Interracial marriage still rising in U.S.

    Interracial marriage still rising in U.S. Associated Press 2010-05-26 Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer About 8 percent of U.S. marriages are mixed-race WASHINGTON – Melting pot or racial divide? The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites. The number of…