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

Cambridge University Press, 9/13/2012
EAN 9780521147989, ISBN10: 0521147980

Paperback, 288 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Language: English

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?

Introduction Kevin Noble Maillard and Rose Cuison Villazor
Part I. Explaining Loving vs. Virginia
1. The legacy of Loving John DeWitt Gregory and Joanna L. Grossman
Part II. Historical Antecedents to Loving
2. The 'love' of Loving Jason A. Gillmer
3. Loving in Indian territory
tribal miscegenation law in historical perspective Carla Pratt
4. American mestizo
Filipinos and antimiscegenation laws in California Leti Volpp
5. Perez vs. Sharp and the limits of Loving
race, marriage, and citizenship reconsidered R. A. Lenhardt
Part III. Loving and Interracial Relationships
Contemporary Challenges
6. The road to Loving
the legacy of antimiscegenation law Kevin Noble Maillard
7. Love at the margins
the racialization of sex and the sexualization of race Camille A. Nelson
8. The crime of Loving
Loving, Lawrence, and beyond I. Bennett Capers
9. What's Loving got to do with it? Law shaping experience and experience shaping law Renée M. Landers
10. Fear of a 'Brown' planet or a new hybrid culture? Jacquelyn Bridgeman
Part IV. Considering the Limits of Loving
11. Black pluralism in post-Loving America Taunya Lovell Banks
12. Political blackness
a sociopolitical construction Angelique Davis
13. Finding a Loving home Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Jacob Willig-Onwuachi
Part V. Loving outside the United States Borders
14. Racially inadmissible wives Rose Cuison Villazor
15. Flying buttresses Nancy K. Ota
16. Crossing borders
Loving vs. Virginia as a story of migration Victor Romero
Part VI. Loving and Beyond
Marriage, Intimacy and Diverse Relationships
17. Black vs. gay
centering LBGT people of color in civil marriage debates Adele Morrison
18. Forty years after Loving
a legacy of unintended consequences Rachel F. Moran
19. The end of marriage Tucker Culbertson
20. Afterword Peter Wallenstein.