Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance

Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance
ISBN-10
0226536637
ISBN-13
9780226536637
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
271
Language
English
Published
2003-05
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Rachel F. Moran

Description

Crossing disciplinary lines, Moran looks in depth at interracial intimacy in America from colonial times to the present. She traces the evolution of bans on intermarriage and explains why blacks and Asians faced harsh penalties while Native Americans and Latinos did not. She provides fresh insight into how these laws served complex purposes, why they remained on the books for so long, and what led to their eventual demise. As Moran demonstrates, the United States Supreme Court could not declare statutes barring intermarriage unconstitutional until the civil rights movement, coupled with the sexual revolution, had transformed prevailing views about race, sex, and marriage.

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