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.
- Frederick Douglass, A Life in American History
- In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own
- Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
- On Turning Black
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Tag: Rachel F. Moran
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Struck by Lightning? Interracial Intimacy and Racial Justice Human Rights Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2, May 2003 pages 528-562 DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2003.0017 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis Kristina L. Burrows Rachel F. Moran, Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (Chicago and…
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In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving vs. Virginia. Although this case promotes marital freedom and racial equality, there are still significant legal and social barriers to the free formation of intimate relationships.
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Here, I will explore Loving’s unintended consequences by considering why the Court took so much for granted and how the opinion later was deployed in unexpected ways. After briefly examining the facts and holdings in the case, I will show that the Justices accepted monoracial categories as a given, despite evidence of multiracial complexity.
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In contrast to Blacks and Asians, anti-miscegenation laws were seldom applied to Native Americans and never mentioned Latinos. The reasons for the lenient treatment of Latinos and Native Americans are quite similar. In both cases, these groups first came into contact with Whites when frontiers were being settled. At the outset, Whites had much to…
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Although anti-miscegenation laws generally have been analyzed as racial legislation, they also can tell us a great deal about intimacy. These provisions have certainly been used to define and entrench racial difference, but they are also a means to set the boundaries of sexual decency and marital propriety. Here, I will use the comparative experience…
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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]…
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Race Law Stories Foundation Press 2008 624 pages ISBN-13: 9781599410012 Edited by Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Devon Wayne Carbado, Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Race Law Stories brings to life well-known and not-so-well known legal opinions—hidden gems—that address slavery, Native American…