10 edition of Race, marriage and the law found in the catalog.
Published
1972
by University of New Mexico Press in Albuquerque
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 162-164.
| Statement | [by] Robert J. Sickels. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | KF4755 .S54 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | viii, 167 p. |
| Number of Pages | 167 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL5304358M |
| ISBN 10 | 0826302564 |
| LC Control Number | 72086815 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 579306 |
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 by: To get to the core of race in America today, read this new book by James Whitman. Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School.
That’s the message behind Is Marriage for White People?, a new book by Stanford Law professor Ralph Richard Banks. Researched and written over the past 10 years, Banks’ book explores the unpleasant — and often unspoken — contributors to and consequences of declining marriage rates among African Americans. Randall Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor and the author of a new book, ''Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption,'' said .
Anti-miscegenation laws and the U.S. Constitution. At least three proposed constitutional amendments intended to bar interracial marriage in the United States were introduced in Congress.. In , Representative Andrew King (Democrat of Missouri) was the first politician in Congress to propose a constitutional amendment to make interracial marriage illegal nationwide. In his immensely popular book The Passing of the Great Race () Grant cautioned: "The cross between a white man and an Indian is an Indian; the cross between a white man and a negro is a negro When it becomes thoroughly understood that the children of mixed marriages between contrasted races belong to the lower type, the importance of.
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TELL THE COURT I LOVE MY Race RACE, MARRIAGE, AND LAW - AN AMERICAN HISTORY is a well written, thought provoking, and perfectly timed look back at a black eye on the nation's heritage.
Readers who see the dots connected to the current debate will want to read Jonathan Rauch's strong dissertation in support of GAY by: Race, marriage and the law. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press [] (OCoLC) Online version: Sickels, Robert J. Race, marriage and the law. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press [] (OCoLC) Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: Robert J Sickels.
The law was expanded by the two-thirds-Mormon state of Utah in to prohibit a white person from marrying a "Mongolian, a member of the malay race or a mulatto, quadroon, or octoroon." [2]: 67 Unlike other states, however, Utah's law said nothing about marriage between white people and Native American people.
Centuries before the same-sex marriage movement, the U.S. government, its constituent states, and their colonial predecessors tackled the controversial issue of "miscegenation": 's widely known that the Deep South banned interracial marriages untilbut less widely known that many other states marriage and the law book the same (California untilfor example)—or that three brazen attempts Author: Tom Head.
Interracial marriage is a form of marriage outside a specific social group involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa as became legal throughout the United States infollowing the decision of the U.S.
Supreme Court under Chief Justice. Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America. The story of the Lovings and the case they took to the Supreme Court involved a community, an extended family, and in particular five main characters—the couple, two young attorneys, and a crusty local /5(12).
Peter Wallenstein, Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage and Law--An American History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan ) AS THE TITLE suggests, this is an ambitious work which narrates a national story of the history of interracial marriage in the United States from the colonial era until the early 21st century, the heart of the analysis focusing on the era "between the s and the.
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/5.
Loving v. Virginia was a Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States. The plaintiffs in the case were Richard and Mildred Loving, a. Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.
The story of the Lovings and the case they took to the Supreme Court involved a community, an extended family, and in particular five main characters--the couple, two young attorneys, and a crusty local.
Race, Marriage, and Law Most anti-miscegenation laws are aimed at preserving the "racial integrity" of the "white race," but North Carolina provides that Cheroker Indians of Robeson County may.
A fascinating book about the government's role in segregating the country, The Color of Law exposes the unjust and often untold history of housing policy, city planning, and racial zoning that Author: Sadie Trombetta. “The Loving case not only revolutionized the constitutional relationship between race and marriage but also set in motion and shaped the issue of law and marriage in the first quarter of the 21st century.
The work is a clearly written example of the law and society approach that is the hallmark of [the Landmark Law Cases and American Society] series. Victor Romero is a contributing author: "Loving Across the Miles: Binational Same-Sex Marriages" pages Inthe U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving vs. Virginia. Although this case promotes marital freedom and racial equality, there are still significant legal and social barriers to the free formation of intimate Cited by: 2.
Introduction: The Story of Law and American Racial Consciousness -- Building a Canon One Case at a Time (with Devon Carbado), in Race Law Stories 1 (edited by Rachel Moran and Devon Carbado, Foundation Press, ). Reprinted as modified in 76 University Of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review ().
Reprinted as "Race Law Cases in the American Story," in Civil Rights in the American. Get this from a library. Tell the court I love my wife: race, marriage, and law: an American history. [Peter Wallenstein] -- Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Ina few weeks after Richard and Mildred Loving got married in Washington, DC, they were.
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.
Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial 5/5(1). Tell the Court I Love My Wife is a refreshingly broad social, political, and legal history of race and marriage.
Peter Wallenstein aims to “supply a historical context and outline a reliable interpretive structure within which to understand” the history of interracial marriage in the U.S. (9).Cited by: 1. The Race Against Race.
By Richard A. Posner. Janu abolish or curtail common law marriage, and obligate clerks in marriage-license bureaus to make a. In the early s, "amalgamationists" attacked the law in Massachusetts that prohibited interracial marriage.
Garrison argued that the law banning these mixed marriages was "an invasion of. “Since plaintiffs refuse to designate their ‘race’ on the mandatory marriage license application, their local circuit court has, in accordance with state law, denied them a license to marry.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.
Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial 5/5(1).
Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History. By Peter Wallenstein (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, xii plus pp. $).
Tell the Court I Love My Wife is a refreshingly broad social, political, and legal history of race and marriage.
