Family Law

Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage

Edited by Kevin Noble Maillard · Rose Cuison Villazor
Cambridge University Press June 2012

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780521147989
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
June 2012
Format
Paperback , 288 pages
Jurisdiction
U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

In 1967, the US Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia. Although this case promotes marital freedom and racial equality, there are still significant legal and social barriers to the free formation of intimate relationships. Marriage continues to be the sole measure of commitment, mixed relationships continue to be rare, and same-sex marriage is only legal in 6 out of 50 states. Most discussion of Loving celebrates the symbolic dismantling of marital discrimination. This book, however, takes a more critical approach to ask how Loving has influenced the 'loving' of America. How far have we come since then and what effect did the case have on individual lives?

• Features a robust discussion of race and racism within the context of 'post-racial' society

• Includes a mix of scholarly and personal approach to race and marriage

• Addresses same-sex marriage issues

Table of Contents

About the Contributors
viii
Acknowledgments
xiv
Foreword
Angela P. Harris
xv
Introduction:Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage
Kevin Noble Maillard and Rose Cuison Villazor
1
Part One. Explaining Loving v. Virginia
11
1.        The Legacy of Loving
John DeWitt Gregory and Joanna L. Grossman
13
Part Two. Historical Antecedents to Loving
27
2.        Telling Stories of Love, Sex, and Race
Jason A. Gillmer
29
3.        Loving in Indian Territory: Tribal Miscegenation Law in Historical Perspective
Carla D. Pratt
46
4.        American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California
Leti Volpp
59
5.        Perez v. Sharp and the Limits of Loving
Robin A. Lenhardt
73
Part Three.Loving and Interracial Relationships: Contemporary Challenges
89
6.        The Multiracial Epiphany, or How to Erase an Interracial Past
Kevin Noble Maillard
91
7.        Love at the Margins: The Racialization of Sex and the Sexualization of Race
Camille A. Nelson
101
8.        The Crime of Loving: LovingLawrence, and Beyond
I. Bennett Capers
114
9.        What’s Loving Got to Do with It? Law Shaping Experience and Experience Shaping Law
Renée M. Landers
128
10.       Fear of a “Brown” Planet
Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman
141
Part Four.Considering the Limits of Loving
153
11.       Black Pluralism in Post-Loving America
Taunya Lovell Banks
155
12.       Political Blackness: A Sociopolitical Construction
Angelique Davis
169
13.       Finding a Loving Home
Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Jacob Willig-Onwuachi
181
Part Five.Loving Outside the U.S. Borders
197
14.       Racially Inadmissible Wives
Rose Cuison Villazor
199
15.       The Military and Interracial Marriage
Nancy K. Ota
208
16.       Loving Across the Miles: Binational Same-Sex Marriages and the Supreme Court
Victor C. Romero
217
Part Six. Loving and Beyond: Marriage, Intimacy, and Diverse Relationships
233
17.       Black v. Gay? Centering LBGT People of Color in Civil-Marriage Debates
Adele M. Morrison
235
18.       Beyond the Loving Analogy: The Independent Logic of Same-Sex Marriage
Rachel F. Moran
242
19.       The End of Marriage
Tucker B. Culbertson
253
Afterword
Peter Wallenstein
261
Permission Granted
263
Index
265

About the Author

Kevin Noble Maillard
Syracuse University, School of Law

Rose Cuison Villazor
Hofstra University, School of Law

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