Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Loving v. Virginia
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Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. The New York Times 2016-11-03 Manohla Dargis, Movie Critic Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving in the Jeff Nichols film “Loving.” Credit Ben Rothstein/Focus Features There are few movies that speak to the American moment as movingly —…
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The Lovings’ Marriage License Is Now On Display At D.C. Court DCist Washington, D.C. 2016-08-31 Rachel Kurzius Photo courtesy of D.C. Courts. D.C. Superior Courthttp://dccourts.gov/internet/superior/main.jsf—not usually a stop for tourists looking for the kinds of historic documents found in the Smithsonian museums. Now, though, the court’s marriage bureau is displaying a collection of seven notable…
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The End of Anti-Miscegenation Laws: Loving v. Virginia and Interracial Relationships Multiracial Media 2016-11-03 Joanna L. Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice University of Illinois, Chicago Little Rock, Arkansas protest to keep anti-miscegenation laws on the books. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia.Commons This past weekend, the new movie Loving hit theaters. The film…
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What Loving Can Show Us About Multiracial Parenting TIME 2016-10-31 Lise Ragbir, Public Voices Fellow and Director of the Warfield Center Gallery University of Texas, Austin Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in Loving. (Focus Features) ‘Let’s stop assuming all families are one color’ America has come a long way since Mildred and Richard Loving took…
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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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What You Didn’t Know About Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-06-10 Arica L. Coleman The landmark civil rights Supreme Court case—which made it illegal to ban interracial marriage—was about more than black and white When the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Loving v. the Commonwealth of Virginia, defendants Richard and Mildred Loving chose not…
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#myLovingDay: How the Lovings’ trials paved the way for today’s multiracial families The Los Angeles Times 2016-06-03 Michelle Maltais Mildred and Richard Loving, convicted in Virginia of marrying while interracial. (Associated Press) I like to say that I am because of Loving. Mildred and Richard Loving. In the early 1970s when my parents met, the…
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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…