Author | : Kevin R. Johnson |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2003-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0814742572 |
This ground-breaking anthology examines the mixed race experience and the impact of law on mixed race citizens in America.
Author | : Kevin R. Johnson |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2003-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0814742572 |
This ground-breaking anthology examines the mixed race experience and the impact of law on mixed race citizens in America.
Author | : Kevin R. Johnson |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2003-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0814742564 |
This ground-breaking anthology examines the mixed race experience and the impact of law on mixed race citizens in America.
Author | : Naomi Zack |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781566392655 |
In the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to racial identity, she discusses why race is a matter of such importance in America and examines the treatment of mixed race in law, society, and literature. Zack argues that black and white designations are themselves racist because the concept of race does not have an adequate scientific foundation. The "one drop" rule, originally a rationalization for slavery, persists today even though there have never been "pure" races and most American blacks have "white" genes. Exploring the existential problems of mixed race identity, she points out how the bi-racial system in this country generates a special racial alienation for many Americans. Ironically suggesting that we include "gray" in our racial vocabulary, Zack concludes that any racial identity is an expression of bad faith. Author note: Naomi Zack is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Albany. She herself is of mixed race: Jewish, African American, and Native American.
Author | : Peggy Pascoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0195094638 |
A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races. Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how these laws were enacted and applied not just in the South but throughout most of the country, in the West, the North, and the Midwest. Beginning in the Reconstruction era, when the term miscegenation first was coined, she traces the creation of a racial hierarchy that bolstered white supremacy and banned the marriage of Whites to Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, and American Indians as well as the marriage of Whites to Blacks. She ends not simply with the landmark 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia, in which the Supreme Court finally struck down miscegenation laws throughout the country, but looks at the implications of ideas of colorblindness that replaced them. What Comes Naturally is both accessible to the general reader and informative to the specialist, a rare feat for an original work of history based on archival research.
Author | : Tanya Katerí Hernández |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2022-08-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807020133 |
“Profound and revelatory, Racial Innocence tackles head-on the insidious grip of white supremacy on our communities and how we all might free ourselves from its predation. Tanya Katerí Hernández is fearless and brilliant . . . What fire!”—Junot Díaz The first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the misconception that Latinos are “exempt” from racism due to their ethnicity and multicultural background Racial Innocence will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a historically marginalized group to experience discrimination and also be discriminatory. Racism is deeply complex, and law professor and comparative race relations expert Tanya Katerí Hernández exposes “the Latino racial innocence cloak” that often veils Latino complicity in racism. As Latinos are the second-largest ethnic group in the US, this revelation is critical to dismantling systemic racism. Basing her work on interviews, discrimination case files, and civil rights law, Hernández reveals Latino anti-Black bias in the workplace, the housing market, schools, places of recreation, the criminal justice system, and Latino families. By focusing on racism perpetrated by communities outside those of White non-Latino people, Racial Innocence brings to light the many Afro-Latino and African American victims of anti-Blackness at the hands of other people of color. Through exploring the interwoven fabric of discrimination and examining the cause of these issues, we can begin to move toward a more egalitarian society.
Author | : Kevin Johnson |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2008-11-20 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 159213792X |
The disconnect between national rhetoric, the law, and public policy.
Author | : Lauren Davenport |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2018-03-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108425984 |
This book investigates the social and political implications of the US multiracial population, which has surged in recent decades.
Author | : Renee C. Romano |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780674010338 |
Marriage between blacks and whites is a longstanding and deeply ingrained taboo in American culture. On the eve of World War II, mixed-race marriage was illegal in most states. Yet, sixty years later, black-white marriage is no longer illegal or a divisive political issue, and the number of such couples and their mixed-race children has risen dramatically. Renee Romano explains how and why such marriages have gained acceptance, and what this tells us about race relations in contemporary America. The history of interracial marriage helps us understand the extent to which America has overcome its racist past, and how much further we must go to achieve meaningful racial equality.
Author | : Maria P. P. Root |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 1992-02-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803941021 |
Although America has been experiencing a biracial baby boom for the last 25 years, there has been a dearth of information about how racially mixed people identify and view themselves as well as relate to one another. Racially Mixed People in America bridges this gap and offers a comprehensive look at all the issues involved in doing research with mixed race people, all in the context of America's multiracial past and present.