{"id":5048,"date":"2010-02-07T02:44:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T02:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2016-12-02T01:28:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T01:28:37","slug":"tell-the-court-i-love-my-wife-race-marriage-and-law-an-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5048","title":{"rendered":"Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law: An American History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/tellthecourtilovemywife\" target=\"_blank\">Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law: An American History<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\" target=\"_blank\">Palgrave Macmillan<\/a><br \/>\n2002<br \/>\n336 pages<br \/>\n6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4 inches, 16-page b\/w photo insert<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-4039-6408-3, ISBN10: 1-4039-6408-4<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.vt.edu\/faculty\/Wallenstein\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Wallenstein<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/tellthecourtilovemywife\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacketupload.macmillanusa.com\/jackets\/high_res\/jpgs\/9781403964083.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first in-depth history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller&#8217;s detail with a historian&#8217;s analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Richard and Mildred Loving<\/a> and countless other interracial couples before them to light in this harrowing history of how individual states had the power to regulate one of the most private aspects of life: marriage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction: &#8220;That&#8217;s No Good Here&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part I. Abominable Mixture and Spurious Issue<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Sex, Marriage, Race, and Freedom in the Early Chesapeake<\/li>\n<li>Indian Foremothers and Freedom Suits in Revolutionary Virginia<\/li>\n<li>From the Chesapeake Colonies to the State of California<\/li>\n<li>Race, Marriage, and the Crisis of the Union<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part II. Equal Protection of the Laws<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Post-Civil War Alabama<\/li>\n<li>Reconstruction and the Law of Interracial Marriage<\/li>\n<li>Accommodating the Law of Freedom of the Law of Race<\/li>\n<li>Interracial Marriage and the Federal Courts, 1857-1917<\/li>\n<li>Interlude: Polygamy, Incest, Fornication, Cohabitation &#8211; and Interracial Marriage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part III. Problem of the Color Line<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Drawing and Redrawing the Color Line<\/li>\n<li>Boundaries &#8211; Race and Place in the Law of Marriage<\/li>\n<li>Racial Identiy and Family Property<\/li>\n<li>Miscegenation Laws, the NAACP, and the Federal Courts, 1941-1963<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part IV. A Breakthrough Case in California<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Contesting the Antimiscegenation Regime &#8211; the 1960s<\/li>\n<li>Virginia vesus the Lovings &#8211; and the Lovings versus Virginia<\/li>\n<li>America after <em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Epilogue: The Color of Love after Loving<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Appendices<\/li>\n<li>Permanent Repeal of State Miscegenation Laws, 1780-1967<\/li>\n<li>Intermarriage in Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Indentity and Authority: An Interfaith Couple in Israel<\/li>\n<li>Transsexuals, Gender Identity, and the Law of Marriage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law: An American History Palgrave Macmillan 2002 336 pages 6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4 inches, 16-page b\/w photo insert ISBN: 978-1-4039-6408-3, ISBN10: 1-4039-6408-4 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,1467,8,17,20],"tags":[70,1197,2042],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-palgrave-macmillan","tag-peter-wallenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048","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=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47597,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/47597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}