{"id":968,"date":"2009-09-24T01:40:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T01:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=968"},"modified":"2013-02-03T02:10:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T02:10:40","slug":"nation-and-miscegenation-comparing-anti-miscegenation-regulations-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Nation and Miscegenation: Comparing Anti-Miscegenation Regulations in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsa-acsp.ca\/papers-2008\/Thompson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Nation and Miscegenation: Comparing Anti-Miscegenation Regulations in North America<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsa-acsp.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Political Science Association<\/a><br \/>\n80th Annual Conference<br \/>\n2008-06-04 through 2008-06-06<\/p>\n<p>Paper Dated: 2008-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/author.oit.ohio.edu\/pols\/profile.cfm?customel_datapageid_1683562=1884530\" target=\"_blank\">Debra Thompson<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>Ohio University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nearly forty years after <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">Loving v. Virginia<\/a><\/em>, the historical prohibition of interracial relationships in the United States exemplifies the state\u2019s regulation of intimate life. \u00a0Anti-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> laws were not simply about the prevention interracial sexual relations; rather, the discourse also concerned the transgression of gendered\/raced social boundaries, the exposure of raced\/gendered sexualities, the threat of non-white access to white capital, <strong>and the potential of mixed-race progeny and the predicament of racial categorization.<\/strong>\u00a0 While a number of legal and historical studies consider the emergence and existence of anti-miscegenation laws in the United States (Williamson, 1980; Davis, 1991;) comparative studies on this subject in political science are virtually non-existent.\u00a0 However, the Canadian state also enacted antimiscegenation laws in the same era throughout various Indian Act regimes and informally regulated other white\/non-white sexual relations. \u00a0This paper will explore the similarities and differences among discourses of anti-miscegenation in North America, seeking to demonstrate that: a) the decision to enact formal legislation can be partially attributed to a number of factors, <strong>including the demographic size of the non-white population and the threat posed by mixed-race progeny to the dominant group\u2019s access to power<\/strong>, privilege and resources; b) contrary to the popular belief of the so-called \u2018tolerance\u2019 of Canadians, racist sentiments towards non-whites existed during the same era that anti-miscegenation laws were created and implemented in the United States; and c) the differences in anti-miscegenation regulation in Canada and the United States are strongly linked to discourses of white masculine nationalism.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsa-acsp.ca\/papers-2008\/Thompson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nation and Miscegenation: Comparing Anti-Miscegenation Regulations in North America Canadian Political Science Association 80th Annual Conference 2008-06-04 through 2008-06-06 Paper Dated: 2008-05 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly forty years after Loving v. Virginia, the historical prohibition of interracial relationships in the United States exemplifies the state\u2019s regulation of intimate life. 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