| Edition |
First Palgrave Macmillan paperback edition. |
| Description |
xii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-295) and index. |
| Contents |
"That's no good here" -- I: Abominable mixture and spurious issue -- Sex, marriage, race, and freedom in the early Chesapeake -- Indian foremothers and freedom suits in revolutionary Virginia -- From the Chesapeake colonies to the state of California -- Race, marriage, and the crisis of the union -- II: Equal protection of the laws -- Post-civil war Alabama -- Reconstruction and the law of interracial marriage -- Accommodating the law of freedom to the law of race -- Interracial marriage and the federal courts, 1857-1917 -- Interlude: Polygamy, incest, fornication, cohabitation--and interracial marriage -- III: Problem of the color line -- Drawing and redrawing the color line -- Boundaries--race and place in the law of marriage -- Racial identity and family property -- Miscegenation laws, the NAACP, and the federal courts, 1941-1963 -- IV: If the right to marry is a fundamental right -- A breakthrough case in California -- Contesting the antimiscegenation regime--the 1960s -- Virginia versus the Lovings--and the Lovings versus Virginia -- America after Loving v. Virginia -- The color of love after Loving -- Permanent repeal of state miscegenation laws, 1780-1967 -- Intermarriage in Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa -- Identity and authority: an interfaith couple in Israel -- Transsexuals, gender identity, and the law of marriage. |
| Summary |
The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. |
| Subject |
Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
1403964084 |
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9781403964083 |
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