{"id":50799,"date":"2016-12-19T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50799"},"modified":"2016-12-19T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:12:07","slug":"the-lovings-dared-to-cross-the-color-line-and-their-story-reveals-why-that-color-line-was-constructed-in-fact-the-loving-decision-was-the-first-and-only-time-the-court-ever-used-the-potent-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50799","title":{"rendered":"The Lovings dared to cross the color line, and their story reveals why that color line was constructed. In fact, the Loving decision was the first and only time the Court ever used the potent words \u2018White Supremacy\u2019 (in caps) to name such ideology."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve been describing <a href=\"http:\/\/sheryllcashin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sheryll Cashin\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50747\" target=\"_blank\">next book<\/a> partly as a history of white supremacy in America,\u201d says Cashin\u2019s editor, Joanna Green. \u201cCashin powerfully illustrates how white supremacy was and is foundational to US capitalism and expansion; thus, segregation proves to be an essential tactic. The Lovings dared to cross the color line, and their story reveals why that color line was constructed. In fact, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loving<\/em> decision<\/a> was the first and only time the Court ever used the potent words \u2018White Supremacy\u2019 (in caps) to name such ideology. It\u2019s surprising that so few people are aware of this case.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ayla Zuraw-Friedland, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50761\" target=\"_blank\">Beacon Goes to the Movies: \u201cLoving\u201d and the History of White Supremacy<\/a>,\u201d <em>Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press<\/em>, December 15, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaconbroadside.com\/broadside\/2016\/12\/beacon-goes-to-the-movies-loving-and-the-history-of-white-supremacy.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.beaconbroadside.com\/broadside\/2016\/12\/beacon-goes-to-the-movies-loving-and-the-history-of-white-supremacy.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been describing Sheryll Cashin\u2019s next book partly as a history of white supremacy in America,\u201d says Cashin\u2019s editor, Joanna Green. \u201cCashin powerfully illustrates how white supremacy was and is foundational to US capitalism and expansion; thus, segregation proves to be an essential tactic. The Lovings dared to cross the color line, and their story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25783,6579,3688,25805,70,11439],"class_list":["post-50799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ayla-zuraw-friedland","tag-beacon-broadside","tag-beacon-press","tag-joanna-green","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-sheryll-cashin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50799","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=50799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50800,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50799\/revisions\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}