{"id":3935,"date":"2009-12-19T01:11:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T01:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2016-06-10T17:24:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:24:25","slug":"loving-the-significance-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3935","title":{"rendered":"Loving: The Significance of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">Loving<\/a><\/em> opinion treated race as a monolithic and meaningful category, even though the realities of the case itself subverted this account. The litigation arose in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caroline_County,_Virginia\">Caroline County, Virginia<\/a>, a place called the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> capital of America\u201d because so many light-skinned blacks were mistaken for whites. In addition, the Jeters made clear that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Richard<\/a> [wasn\u2019t] the first white person in our family,\u201d suggesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Mildred<\/a>\u2019s own racial background was complex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rachel F. Moran, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2669\" target=\"_blank\">Loving and the Legacy of Unintended Consequences<\/a>,\u201d (<em>Wisconsin Law Review<\/em>, Issue 2, 2007), 241-281. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/265218010_Loving_and_the_Legacy_of_Unintended_Consequences\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/265218010_Loving_and_the_Legacy_of_Unintended_Consequences<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cpassing capital of America\u201d because so many light-skinned blacks were mistaken for whites. In addition, the Jeters made clear that \u201cRichard [wasn\u2019t] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70,866,7131],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-rachel-f-moran","tag-rachel-moran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","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=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47503,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/47503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}