{"id":51388,"date":"2017-03-19T02:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T02:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51388"},"modified":"2017-04-21T02:02:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T02:02:08","slug":"50-years-of-loving-seeking-justice-through-love-and-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51388","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Loving: Seeking Justice Through Love and Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/50-years-of-loving-seeking-justice-through-love-and-relationships-registration-29535190550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>50 Years of Loving: Seeking Justice Through Love and Relationships<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Creighton University | Werner Institute | 2040 Initiative<br \/>\nOmaha, Nebraska<br \/>\n<strong>2017-03-23, 17:30 through 2017-03-24, 17:00 CDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em> \u2013 Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 1967 decision in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a> ended legal prohibitions against interracial marriage in the U.S. By eliminating longstanding legal sanctions against \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">miscegenation<\/a>,\u201d Loving disrupted the pre-existing social system. The ruling rejected racial separation and hierarchy and endorsed relationships across previously uncrossable racial lines.<\/p>\n<p>The effects of <em>Loving<\/em> marriages extend beyond those who are themselves married. Since <em>Loving<\/em>, the proportion of the U.S. population with multiple racial heritages has grown dramatically. Moreover, the children born as a result of <em>Loving<\/em> have disrupted the social construction of race itself, with more people self-identifying as of more than one race, biracial, multiracial, or mixed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>50 Years of Loving \u2013 Symposium Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The symposium will begin with a feature presentation open to the public on Thursday, March 23, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matjohnson.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mat Johnson<\/a>, author of the novel &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loving Day<\/a>&#8221; (2015). Symposium participants will then explore the effects that the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 1967 decision in <em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em> has had on U.S. society \u2013 institutionally, demographically and relationally. Participants will also develop strategies for moving from thought to action by building relationships across difference&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/50-years-of-loving-seeking-justice-through-love-and-relationships-registration-29535190550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia ended legal prohibitions against interracial marriage in the U.S. By eliminating longstanding legal sanctions against \u201cmiscegenation,\u201d Loving disrupted the pre-existing social system. The ruling rejected racial separation and hierarchy and endorsed relationships across previously uncrossable racial lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1467,13,8,20],"tags":[26125,10846,70,2355,26124],"class_list":["post-51388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-2040-initiative","tag-creighton-university","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-mat-johnson","tag-werner-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51388","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=51388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53596,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51388\/revisions\/53596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}