{"id":14710,"date":"2011-07-04T02:50:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T02:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14710"},"modified":"2017-01-27T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T18:28:04","slug":"interracial-relationships-and-loving-v-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14710","title":{"rendered":"Interracial Relationships and Loving v. Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interracial Relationships and <\/a><\/em>Loving v. Virginia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

CityLine Boston<\/a>
\nWCVB Boston<\/a>
\n2011-06-15<\/p>\n

Karen Holmes Ward<\/a><\/strong>, Director of Public Affairs and Community Services; Host and Executive Producer of CityLine<\/p>\n

Marcia Alesan Dawkins<\/a><\/strong>, Visiting Scholar
\nBrown University<\/em><\/p>\n

Ken Tanabe<\/strong>, President and Founder
\nLovingDay.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Dawkins discusses the ongoing impact of interracial romantic relationships, multiracial identities and passing<\/a> in the United States with Loving Day founder Ken Tanabe and CityLine host Karen Holmes Ward.<\/p>\n

Notes by Steven F. Riley: There are several significant inaccuracies in this video.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Interracial marriage was in fact legal<\/em>, not illegal, in most states 44 years ago.\u00a0 Only 16 states had bans on interracial marriage at that time.<\/li>\n
  2. Ms. Ward’s comment, \u201cNo steps were taken to change the law until one appropriately named couple fought for their rights…\u201d is grossly inaccurate.\u00a0 There was no one\u00a0\u201claw\u201d to ban such marriages in the United States. Each state had its own anti-miscegenation statute.\u00a0 Most importantly, the battle to end anti-miscegenation<\/a> (anti-interracial marriage) laws in the United States was a 50 year struggle which included such landmark cases like California Supreme Court: Perez v. Sharp<\/a><\/em> (1948), U.S. Supreme\u00a0Court:\u00a0McLaughlin v. Florida<\/a><\/em> (1964) and ending of course, with Loving v. Virginia<\/a><\/em> (1967).<\/li>\n
  3. Mr. Tanabe’s comment, \u201cAfter the case, for the first time, interracial marriage was legalized in the United States.\u201d is incorrect. \u00a0Loving v. Virginia<\/em> did not<\/em> legalize interracial marriage in the United States.\u00a0 It legalized interracial marriage only in the remaining 15 states (Maryland repealed its law during the case) that still had bans on such marriages.\u00a0 In fact, there were 10 states that never enacted any bans on interracial marriage. <\/em>Mr. Tanabe seems to have forgotten that Mildred and Richard Loving<\/a>\u00a0(the plaintiffs in the case) were legally<\/em> married in Washington, D.C. in June of\u00a01958, six months\u00a0before they were arrested for violating the section of the law which prohibited interracial couples from being married out of state and then returning to Virginia.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To get a comprehensive view of anti-miscegenation laws and their impact on race relations in the United States, please read Peggy Pascoe’s<\/a> multiple award winning book,\u00a0What Comes Naturally, Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> Also, please read my thoughts about the misreprentation of the Loving v. Virginia<\/em> case in contemporary discourses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    Interracial Relationships and Loving v. Virginia CityLine Boston WCVB Boston 2011-06-15 Karen Holmes Ward, Director of Public Affairs and Community Services; Host and Executive Producer of CityLine Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ken Tanabe, President and Founder LovingDay.org Dr. Dawkins discusses the ongoing impact of interracial romantic relationships, multiracial identities and passing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,1467,8,6462,394,20,842],"tags":[6753,6751,6750,6752,6749,70,3083,2408,2406,6754],"class_list":["post-14710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-cityline-boston","tag-karen-h-ward","tag-karen-holmes-ward","tag-karen-ward","tag-ken-tanabe","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-marcia-a-dawkins","tag-marcia-alesan-dawkins","tag-marcia-dawkins","tag-wcvb-boston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51319,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions\/51319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}