{"id":8714,"date":"2010-09-03T17:34:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T17:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8714"},"modified":"2013-09-13T23:17:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T23:17:56","slug":"plessy-as-%e2%80%9cpassing%e2%80%9d-judicial-responses-to-ambiguously-raced-bodies-in-plessy-v-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8714","title":{"rendered":"Plessy as \u201cPassing\u201d: Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-5893.2005.00234.x\" target=\"_blank\">Plessy as \u201cPassing\u201d: Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1540-5893\" target=\"_blank\">Law &amp; Society Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/lasr.2005.39.issue-3\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 39, Issue 3<\/a> (September 2005)<br \/>\npages 563\u2013600<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-5893.2005.00234.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1540-5893.2005.00234.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrippscollege.edu\/academics\/faculty\/mark-golub.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Golub<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Politics &amp; International Relations<br \/>\n<em>Scripps College, Claremont, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plessy_v._Ferguson\" target=\"_blank\">Plessy v. Ferguson<\/a><\/em> (1896) is infamous for its doctrine of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Separate_but_equal\" target=\"_blank\">separate but equal<\/a>,\u201d which gave constitutional legitimacy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow<\/a> segregation laws. What is less-known about the case is that the appellant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homer_Plessy\" target=\"_blank\">Homer Plessy<\/a> was, by all appearances, a white man. In the language of the Court, his \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1146\" target=\"_blank\">one-eighth African blood<\/a>\u201d was \u201cnot discernible in him.\u201d This article analyzes <em>Plessy<\/em> as a story of racial \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>.\u201d The existence of growing interracial populations in the nineteenth century created difficulties for legislation designed to enforce the separation of the races. Courts were increasingly called upon to determine the racial identity of particular individuals. Seen as a judicial response to racial ambiguity, <em>Plessy<\/em> demonstrates the law&#8217;s role not only in the treatment of racial groups, but also in the construction and maintenance of racial categories.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1540-5893.2005.00234.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plessy as \u201cPassing\u201d: Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson Law &amp; Society Review Volume 39, Issue 3 (September 2005) pages 563\u2013600 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1540-5893.2005.00234.x Mark Golub, Assistant Professor of Politics &amp; International Relations Scripps College, Claremont, California The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) is infamous for its doctrine of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,6462,20],"tags":[1447,3730,3729,579],"class_list":["post-8714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-homer-plessy","tag-law-society-review","tag-mark-golub","tag-plessy-v-ferguson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714","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=8714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}