Sheryll Cashin

Loving (eBook, ePUB)

Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

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Produktbeschreibung

How interracial love and marriage changed American history, and continues to alter the landscape of American politics. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark decision of Loving v. Virginia ended bans on interracial marriage and remains a signature case-the first to use the words "white supremacy" to describe such racism. Drawing from the earliest chapters in US history, legal scholar Sheryll Cashin reveals the enduring legacy of America's original sin, tracing how we transformed from a country without an entrenched construction of race to a nation where one drop of nonwhite blood merited exclusion from full citizenship. In vivid detail, she illustrates how the idea of whiteness was created by the planter class of yesterday and is reinforced by today's power-hungry dog-whistlers to divide struggling whites and people of color, ensuring plutocracy and undermining the common good. Not just a hopeful treatise on the future of race relations in America, Loving challenges the notion that trickle-down progressive politics is our only hope for a more inclusive society. Accessible and sharp, Cashin reanimates the possibility of a future where interracial understanding serves as a catalyst of a social revolution ending not in artificial color blindness but in a culture where acceptance and difference are celebrated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807058268
• Artikelnr.: 48416983

Autorenporträt

Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University, is author of The Agitator's Daughter, The Failures of Integration, and Place, Not Race. She is a frequent commentator on law and race relations, appearing on NPR, CNN, ABC News, and MSNBC. Cashin was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and served in the Clinton White House as an advisor on urban and economic policy.

Inhaltsangabe

AUTHOR’S NOTE
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE BEFORE LOVING, 1607–1939
CHAPTER ONE
Going Native: Virginia’s First Lovers and Haters
CHAPTER TWO
Sex, Love, and Rebellion in Early Colonial Virginia
CHAPTER THREE
Slavery Begets Antimiscegenation and White Supremacy
CHAPTER FOUR
Miscegenation, Dog-Whistling, and the Spread of Supremacy
PART TWO LOVING
CHAPTER FIVE
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
PART THREE AFTER LOVING
CHAPTER SIX
2017: Interracial Intimacy and the Threat to and Persistence of White
Supremacy
CHAPTER SEVEN
More Loving: Families and Friendship
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Future: The Rise of the Culturally Dexterous
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
INDEX