{"id":56509,"date":"2018-05-29T00:26:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T00:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56509"},"modified":"2018-05-29T00:26:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T00:26:46","slug":"the-law-recognizes-racial-instinct-tucker-v-blease-and-the-black-white-paradigm-in-the-jim-crow-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56509","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe law recognizes racial instinct\u201d: Tucker v. Blease and the Black\u2013White Paradigm in the Jim Crow South"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe law recognizes racial instinct\u201d: <\/strong><\/em>Tucker v. Blease<\/strong> and the Black\u2013White Paradigm in the Jim Crow South<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Law and History Review<\/a>
\nVolume 29, Issue 2 (May 2011)<\/a>
\npages 471-495
\nDOI: 10.1017\/S0738248011000058<\/a><\/p>\n

John W. Wertheimer<\/strong>, Jessica Bradshaw<\/strong>, Allyson Cobb<\/strong>, Harper Addison<\/strong>, E. Dudley Colhoun<\/strong>, Samuel Diamant<\/strong>, Andrew Gilbert<\/strong>, Jeffrey Higgs<\/strong>, Nicholas Skipper<\/strong><\/p>\n

On January 24, 1913, the trustees of the Dalcho School<\/a>, a segregated, all-white public school in Dillon County, South Carolina<\/a>, summarily dismissed Dudley, Eugene, and Herbert Kirby, ages ten, twelve, and fourteen, respectively. According to testimony offered in a subsequent hearing, the boys had \u201calways properly behaved,\u201d were \u201cgood pupils,\u201d and \u201cnever \u2026exercise[d] any bad influence in school.\u201d Moreover, the boys\u2019 overwhelmingly white ancestry, in the words of the South Carolina Supreme Court<\/a>, technically \u201centitled [them] to be classified as white,\u201d according to state law. Nevertheless, because local whites believed that the Kirbys were \u201cnot of pure Caucasian blood,\u201d and that therefore their removal was in the segregated school’s best interest, the court, in Tucker v. Blease<\/em><\/a> (1914), upheld their expulsion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe law recognizes racial instinct\u201d: Tucker v. Blease and the Black\u2013White Paradigm in the Jim Crow South Law and History Review Volume 29, Issue 2 (May 2011) pages 471-495 DOI: 10.1017\/S0738248011000058 John W. Wertheimer, Jessica Bradshaw, Allyson Cobb, Harper Addison, E. Dudley Colhoun, Samuel Diamant, Andrew Gilbert, Jeffrey Higgs, Nicholas Skipper On January 24, 1913, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,20],"tags":[28708,28712,28718,28716,28710,28709,28715,28713,28707,28706,264,28714,28711,1449,28717,28702],"class_list":["post-56509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-allyson-cobb","tag-andrew-gilbert","tag-dalcho-school","tag-dudley-kirby","tag-e-dudley-colhoun","tag-harper-addison","tag-herbert-kirby","tag-jeffrey-higgs","tag-jessica-bradshaw","tag-john-w-wertheimer","tag-law-and-history-review","tag-nicholas-skipper","tag-samuel-diamant","tag-south-carolina","tag-south-carolina-supreme-court","tag-tucker-v-blease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56509","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=56509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56510,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56509\/revisions\/56510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}