{"id":4269,"date":"2010-01-02T02:25:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T02:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2015-03-13T00:20:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:20:33","slug":"the-american-melting-pot-miscegenation-laws-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4269","title":{"rendered":"The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25163474\" target=\"_blank\">The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/action\/showPublication?journalCode=maghist\" target=\"_blank\">Organization of American Historians\u00a0Magazine of History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.2307\/i25163454\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 15, Number 4,\u00a0Summer 2001<\/a><br \/>\npages 80-84<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coedu.usf.edu\/main\/departments\/seced\/Faculty\/Cruz.html\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e1rbara C. Cruz<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Social Science Education<br \/>\n<em>University of South Florida, Tampa<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coedu.usf.edu\/main\/departments\/seced\/Faculty\/Berson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael J. Berson<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Social Science Education<br \/>\n<em>University of South Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People of mixed heritage have been citizens of the United States since the country\u2019s inception. Indeed, one scholar has insisted that \u201cAmerican History would be unrecognizable without ethnic intermarriage\u201d. But while Americans proudly describe their nation as a \u201cmelting pot,\u201d history shows that social convention and legal statutes have been less than tolerant of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>, or \u201crace mixing.\u201d For students and teachers of history, the topic can provide useful context for a myriad of historical and contemporary issues.<\/p>\n<p>Laws prohibiting miscegenation in the United States date back as early as 1661 and were common in many states until 1967. That year, the Supreme Court ruled on the issue in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">Loving v. Virginia<\/a><\/em>, concluding that Virginia\u2019s miscegenation laws were unconstitutional. In this article, we look at the history of miscegenation in the United States, some motivations for anti-miscegenation policy, the landmark decision of <em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em>, and some applications of the topic for the social studies classroom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the\u00a0article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25163474\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States Organization of American Historians\u00a0Magazine of History Volume 15, Number 4,\u00a0Summer 2001 pages 80-84 B\u00e1rbara C. Cruz, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida, Tampa Michael J. Berson, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida People of mixed heritage have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,394,23,20],"tags":[1688,3958,70,3959,1689,19607,12208],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-teaching","category-usa","tag-barbara-c-cruz","tag-barbara-cruz","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-michael-berson","tag-michael-j-berson","tag-oah-magazine-of-history","tag-organization-of-american-historians-magazine-of-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","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=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}