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.
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Tag: William and Mary Law Review
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Virginia Bastardy Laws: A Burdensome Heritage William and Mary Law Review Volume 9, Issue 2 (1967) Article 8 pages 402-429 Dominik Lasok, Professor of Law University of Exeter The theory that British settlers brought with them as much of the common Law of England as was appropriate to their circumstances in the New World, propounded by…
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Miscegenation: The Courts and the Constitution William and Mary Law Review Volume 8, Issue 1 (1966) Article 7 pages 133-142 Cyrus E. Phillips IV MISCEGENATION: THE COURTS AND THE CONSTITUTION Miscegenation is generally defined as the interbreeding or marriage of persons of different races, but the term will here be used in reference to miscegenetic…
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Thus the effectiveness of a public policy argument in defense of miscegenation statutes stands on very weak ground today. The mind of the modern Supreme Court was well expressed by Mr. Chief Justice Vinson in Shelley v. Kraemer, when he stated: “Equal protection of the laws is not achieved through indiscriminate imposition of equalities.” Edmund…
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Present Status of Miscegenation Statutes William and Mary Law Review Volume 4, Issue 1 (January 1963) Article 4 pages 28-35 Edmund L. Walton Jr., Founder Walton & Adams, P.C., Reston, Virginia With the influx of so called “civil rights” cases in recent years it seems that a reappraisal of state legislation and constitutional prohibitions concerning intermarriage…