{"id":6573,"date":"2010-04-12T03:26:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T03:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6573"},"modified":"2016-11-05T02:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T02:28:03","slug":"%e2%80%9ctell-the-court-i-love-my-indian-wife%e2%80%9d-interrogating-race-and-self-identity-in-loving-v-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6573","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife\u201d Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife\u201d Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society<\/a>
\nVolume 8, Issue 1<\/a> (April 2006)
\npages 67-80
\nDOI: 10.1080\/10999940500516983<\/a><\/p>\n

Arica L. Coleman<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Black American Studies
\nUnverisity of Delaware<\/em><\/p>\n

The article reexamines the Loving V. Virginia<\/a><\/em> case by focusing on their tri-racial community<\/a> of Central Point, Virginia<\/a> and Mildred Loving<\/a>‘s self identity as an Indian woman. Loving’s self identity was informed by the twentieth-century politics of racial purity, which resulted in a community-wide denial of African ancestry.<\/strong> I argue that Mildred Loving’s marriage to a white man was not an affirmation of Black\/white intermarriage, but rather adhered to the code of racial purity as defined by the state of Virginia, a legacy which continues in the post-Civil Rights era<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia<\/a><\/em>, in which the Supreme Court declared anti-miscegenation<\/a> laws unconstitutional, has garnered far less scholarly attention than its 1954 predecessor. Brown v. the Board of Education<\/a><\/em>, which overturned legalized segregation. What little appeared in the way of scholarship has focused on analysis the history the history of anti-miscegenation legislation, the events which led up to the case presentation before the nine justices, the legal precedents regarding the arguments presented before the court, and the unanimous decision delivered by Chief Justice Earl Warren<\/a>. Until recently with the exception of an article which appeared in Ebony<\/em> magazine several months after the Supreme Court decision, writers have given little attention to the personal lives of the actual plaintiffs now enshrined in American history, as “the couple that rocked the courts.”…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

\u201cTell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife\u201d Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 8, Issue 1 (April 2006) pages 67-80 DOI: 10.1080\/10999940500516983 Arica L. Coleman, Assistant Professor of Black American Studies Unverisity of Delaware The article reexamines the Loving V. Virginia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,3015,394,20,693],"tags":[2753,2752,70,2754,1335,2751,20757],"class_list":["post-6573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-arica-coleman","tag-arica-l-coleman","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-mildred-loving","tag-richard-loving","tag-souls","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573","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=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49805,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions\/49805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}