{"id":38128,"date":"2014-11-07T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38128"},"modified":"2014-11-07T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T16:20:25","slug":"marni-soupcoff-a-law-that-bans-mixed-race-couples-yes-in-2014-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38128","title":{"rendered":"Marni Soupcoff: A law that bans \u2018mixed race\u2019 couples? Yes. In 2014. In Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2014\/11\/06\/marni-soupcoff-a-law-that-bans-mixed-race-couples-yes-in-2014-in-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Marni Soupcoff: A law that bans \u2018mixed race\u2019 couples? Yes. In 2014. In Canada<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">National Post<\/a><br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, Canada<br \/>\n2014-11-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/author\/soupcoff\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marni Soupcoff<\/strong><\/a>, Deputy Comment Editor<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian woman falls in love and joins her life with that of a man of a different race. As a direct result of this union, she is harassed, receives notice of eviction, and is told she must leave her home.<\/p>\n<p>What century are we talking about? This one, I\u2019m afraid; and the culprit is not some errant racist landlord trying to throw one tenant out of a building. It\u2019s the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kahnawake\" target=\"_blank\">Kahnawake Mohawk<\/a> council, which has a law that bans all \u201cmixed race\u201d couples from living anywhere in its Montreal-area territory.<\/p>\n<p>Waneek Horn-Miller is half of one of those \u201cmixed race\u201d couples who has been told to get out. Horn-Miller may be a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohawk_people\" target=\"_blank\">Mohawk<\/a>, but because her common-law husband (and the father or her two children) is white, the aboriginal activist and former Olympian is no longer welcome or permitted to live on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kahnawake\" target=\"_blank\">Kahnawake territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is happening in 2014. Which, to put things in context, is 47 years after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">United States Supreme Court ruled anti-miscegenation (or race-mixing) laws unconstitutional in that country<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2014\/11\/06\/marni-soupcoff-a-law-that-bans-mixed-race-couples-yes-in-2014-in-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marni Soupcoff: A law that bans \u2018mixed race\u2019 couples? Yes. In 2014. In Canada National Post Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2014-11-06 Marni Soupcoff, Deputy Comment Editor A Canadian woman falls in love and joins her life with that of a man of a different race. As a direct result of this union, she is harassed, receives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,1467,3015],"tags":[18373,2858],"class_list":["post-38128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-law","category-native-americans","tag-marni-soupcoff","tag-national-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38128","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=38128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}