{"id":52152,"date":"2017-03-07T02:21:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T02:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52152"},"modified":"2017-03-07T02:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T02:21:59","slug":"erased-onscreen-where-are-all-the-interracial-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52152","title":{"rendered":"Erased Onscreen: Where Are All the Interracial Couples?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erased Onscreen: Where Are All the Interracial Couples?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2017-03-03<\/p>\n

Kevin Noble Maillard<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Law
\nSyracuse University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nDaniel Kaluuya<\/a> and Allison Williams<\/a> in Jordan Peele\u2019s<\/a> \u201cGet Out<\/a>.\u201d
\nCredit Justin Lubin\/Universal Pictures<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The recent drama \u201cLoving<\/a>\u201d is about an interracial marriage and takes place in midcentury rural Virginia<\/a>, but there are no burning crosses, white hoods or Woolworth<\/a> counters. Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, a white man and a black Native American woman kiss in public at a drag race, and no one voices disapproval. A few white spectators stare and scowl. But the couple embrace and laugh, unsullied.<\/p>\n

\u201cSegregation wasn\u2019t a clean divide in these communities,\u201d the drama\u2019s writer-director, Jeff Nichols<\/a>, told me, and for \u201cLoving\u201d it\u2019s true: The film, about the 1967 Supreme Court case striking down laws<\/a> banning interracial marriage, addresses the long ignored and deliberately suppressed topic of mixed race in America. It confounds our impressions of the past, the legacies of slavery, and the reality of Jim Crow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fifty years have passed since \u201cGuess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner<\/a>,\u201d and this is still an issue. Mixed-race couples existed here long before 1967, but the Lovings (played by Joel Edgerton<\/a> and Ruth Negga<\/a>) were among the first to demand official recognition through marriage. According to the codes of popular culture and the law of domestic relations, families like theirs did not exist. Sustaining the legitimacy of racial boundaries requires suppression of these narratives. Without policing and erasing by law and popular culture, taboos lose their authority…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The recent drama \u201cLoving\u201d is about an interracial marriage and takes place in midcentury rural Virginia, but there are no burning crosses, white hoods or Woolworth counters. Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, a white man and a black Native American woman kiss in public at a drag race, and no one voices disapproval. A few white spectators stare and scowl. But the couple embrace and laugh, unsullied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,20],"tags":[1234,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-52152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-kevin-noble-maillard","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52152","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=52152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52153,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52152\/revisions\/52153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}