Loving vs. Virginia in a post-racial world
Subtitle: rethinking race, sex, and marriage
By: Kevin Noble Maillard, Rose Cuison Villazor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780521198585; 9780521147989
Subjects: Interracial marriage; Law and legislation; Trials, litigation
Description: "In 1967, the U.S. 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 legal in only seven out of fifty states. Most discussion of Loving celebrates the dismantling of marital racial 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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : lasting Loving in the 21st century / Kevin Noble Maillard and Rose Cuison Villazor; title: The legacy of Loving / John DeWitt Gregory and Joanna L. Grossman; title: The "love" of Loving / Jason A. Gillmer; title: Loving in Indian territory : tribal miscegenation law in historical perspective / Carla Pratt; title: American mestizo : Filipinos and antimiscegenation laws in California / Leti Volpp; title: Perez v. Sharp and the limits of loving : race, marriage, and citizenship reconsidered / R.A. Lenhardt; title: The road to loving : the legacy of antimiscegenation law / Kevin Noble Maillard; title: Love at the margins : the racialization of sex and the sexualization of race / Camille A. Nelson; title: The crime of loving : loving, lawrence, and beyond / I. Bennett Capers; title: What's loving got to do with it? : law shaping experience and experience shaping law / Renée M. Landers; title: Fear of a "brown" planet or a new hybrid culture? / Jacquelyn Bridgeman; title: Black pluralism in post-loving america / Taunya Lovell Banks; title: Multiracialism and reparations : accounting for political blackness / Angelique Davis; title: Finding a loving home / Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Jacob Willig-Onwuachi; title: Racially inadmissible wives / Rose Cuison Villazor; title: Flying buttresses / Nancy K. Ota; title: Crossing borders : Loving v. Virginia as a story of migration / Victor Romero; title: Black vs. gay : centering LBGT people of color in civil marriage debates / Adele Morrison; title: Years after Loving : a legacy of unintended consequences / Rachel F. Moran; title: The end of marriage / Tucker Culbertson; title: Afterword  / Peter Wallenstein.