Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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“We Were Married on the Second Day of June, and the Police Came After Us the 14th of July.” The Washingtonian 2016-11-02 Hillary Kelly, Design & Style Editor Richard and Mildred Loving. Photograph by Grey Villet. An oral history, nearly 50 years later, of the landmark Virginia case that legalized interracial marriage—and is the…
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Opinion/Commentary: The facts behind loving, law, and ‘Loving’ The Daily Progress Charlottesville, Virginia 2016-11-13 Jeff E. Schapiro, Politics columnist Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia Focus Features via AP Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga protray an interracial couple from Virginia whose romance and marraiage made history. The story or Richard and Mildred Loving is told, Hollywood-style in…
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Hollywood has long shown discomfort with interracial couples, but change is happening The Los Angeles Times 2016-11-10 Lewis Beale Katherine Houghton puts a flower in Sidney Poitier’s hair in a scene from the film “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner.” (Getty Images) In 1967, the same year the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia struck down…
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The African American Museum chooses ‘Loving’ for its first film screening The Washington Post 2016-10-25 Helena Andrews-Dyer Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, stars of “Loving,” attend the premiere of the film on Thursday in Beverly Hills. (Chris Pizzello/Invision via Associated Press) Just one month after opening its doors, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is…
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Behind the Scenes of Loving, the Most Beautiful Love Story Ever Told Vogue 2016-10-17 (November 2016) Danzy Senna photographed by Mario Testino Photographed by Mario Testino, Vogue, November 2016 Meet Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, the brilliant stars of Loving, Jeff Nichols’s sweeping portrait of an interracial couple fıghting for their right to marry in…
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Cannes: Interracial Marriage Drama ‘Loving’ Throws Hat in Oscar Ring The Hollywood Reporter 2016-05-16 Gregg Kilday Director Jeff Nichols and stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga make a strong first-impression as their new film about the landmark Supreme Court case is unveiled. Loving, writer/director Jeff Nichols’ new film about Richard and Mildred Loving — the…
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First Look at Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in ‘The Loving Story’ (Based on Anti-Miscegenation Case) Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2015-11-20 Tambay A. Obenson Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving, on the set of the movie “Loving,” being shot in Richmond, Va. (Ben Rothstein/Big Beach Films…
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Virginia Ban on Interracial Marriages Goes to Federal Court This Week The New York Times 1965-01-24 page 43 RICHMOND, Jan. 23—A constitutional test of Virginia laws that make it a crime for a white person to marry a Negro will begin here next week. The case is regarded as certain to go to the United…
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Mildred Loving, Who Battled Ban on Mixed-Race Marriage, Dies at 68 The New York Times 2008-05-06 Douglas Martin Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central…
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Loving in Virginia: A teacher’s work brings new life to an old case. University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Newsletter February 2013 Caroline County, Virginia, 1958. Newlyweds Richard and Mildred Loving wake at 2 a.m. to the sound of their front door being kicked in. Before they are out of…