{"id":4418,"date":"2010-01-08T20:55:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2010-01-11T19:10:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:10:58","slug":"thinking-about-race-sexuality-and-marriage-a-roundtable-on-peggy-pascoe%e2%80%99s-what-comes-naturally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4418","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about Race, Sexuality, and Marriage: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe\u2019s What Comes Naturally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thinking about Race, Sexuality, and Marriage: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe\u2019s What Comes Naturally<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

American Historical Association<\/a>
\n124th Annual Meeting
\nFriday, 2010-01-10, 08:30-10:30 PST (Local Time)
\nManchester Grand Hyatt San Diego
\nManchester Ballroom D (Hyatt)
\nSan Diego, California<\/p>\n

Thinking about Race, Sexuality, and Marriage: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe\u2019s What Comes Naturally<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair:
\nEileen Boris<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History, Chair and Professor of Feminist Studies
\nUniversity of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n

Commentator:
\nVicki L. Ruiz<\/a><\/strong>, Chair and Professor of History
\nUniversity of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sponsored by the AHA Working Group for Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage<\/em><\/p>\n

Panel Discussion<\/a>
\nKristin Celello<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History
\nQueens College, City University of New York<\/em><\/p>\n

For the past several decades, historians have argued effectively that far from being stable and unchanging until the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, marriage–as a legal and social institution–has changed in significant ways over the course of American history.\u00a0 Pascoe’s book<\/a> reminds us that race must necessarily be integrated into this discourse, contending not only that who has had access to marriage has varied but also that the state has played a crucial role in the creation of marital “norms.”<\/p>\n

Panel Discussion<\/a>
\nMatt J. Garcia<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of American Civilization, Ethnic Studies and History
\nBrown University<\/p>\n

Given the ascendancy of Obama<\/a> and claims by media that we have arrived in a “post-Racial” era with his election, this book<\/a> reminds us that such moments have come before in court cases concerning interracial unions and did not result in the end of race and racism that has been associated with these relationships.<\/strong>\u00a0 Pascoe’s book, in other words, contributes to an evolving history of interracial relations, a subject that will have increasing interest as children of this generation go to college.\u00a0 I plan to talk about the future audiences for her book by reflecting on my teaching the history of interracial relations and mixed race people over the last ten years.<\/div>\n

Panel Discussion<\/a>
\nValerie Matsumoto<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/p>\n

Peggy Pascoe<\/a>‘s landmark work<\/a> raises questions regarding post-World War II changes not only in the dominant US society but also within East Asian American communities, which had their own strong preferences for endogamous marriage.\u00a0 Her research also draws attention to the roles played by Asian Americans in confronting old racial structures, as embedded in law.\u00a0 Challenges to miscegenation<\/a> laws in the US West were mounted by Nisei such as Noriko Sawada Bridges and Harry Oyama during the critical period of Japanese American community reconfiguration and rebuilding after World War II. I will consider how the Japanese American community’s understandings of racialization shifted in this era; I will also examine perceptions of interracial marriage within the ethnic community.<\/p>\n

Panel Discussion<\/a>
\nJessica Millward<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History
\nUniversity of California, Irvine<\/p>\n

I suggest that the implications of Peggy Pascoe<\/a>‘s work<\/a> on miscegenation laws stretch beyond the geographical setting of the West, and the temporal setting of the Progressive era, and signal key points of inquiry among scholars of African American Women’s history writ large. In particular, I focus on laws of slavery and manumission in 18th and 19th centuries.\u00a0 Laws governing manumission held particular ramifications for enslaved African American women as they used their consensual and non-consensual relationships with owners, and consensual relationships with free black men to access freedom for themselves and their children.<\/strong>\u00a0 I suggest that laws governing manumission served as precursors to miscegenation laws in the 20th century. Likewise, I suggest that \u201cmarriage\u201d and uplift constituted a range of definitions based on the particular angle of vision of African American women in both slavery and in freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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