Mixed Race America and the Law

Mixed Race America and the Law
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 523
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ISBN-10 : 9780814742570
ISBN-13 : 0814742572
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Mixed Race America and the Law by : Kevin R. Johnson

This ground-breaking anthology examines the mixed race experience and the impact of law on mixed race citizens in America.

Race and Mixed Race

Race and Mixed Race
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Publisher : Temple University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 1566392659
ISBN-13 : 9781566392655
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Race and Mixed Race by : Naomi Zack

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.

Mixed Race America and the Law

Mixed Race America and the Law
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 523
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ISBN-10 : 9780814742563
ISBN-13 : 0814742564
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Mixed Race America and the Law by : Kevin R. Johnson

This ground-breaking anthology examines the mixed race experience and the impact of law on mixed race citizens in America.

What Comes Naturally

What Comes Naturally
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9780195094633
ISBN-13 : 0195094638
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis What Comes Naturally by : Peggy Pascoe

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.

India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s

India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9783319623344
ISBN-13 : 3319623346
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s by : Anupama Arora

This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume – with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars – aims to add to an understanding of the fast changing terrain of economic, political, and cultural life in the US as it emerged from being a British colony to having imperial ambitions of its own on the global stage. The essays trace, variously, the evolution of the changing self-image of a nation embodying a surprisingly cosmopolitan sensibility, open to different cultural values and customs in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to one that slowly adopted rigid and discriminatory racial and cultural attitudes spawned by the widespread missionary activities of the ABCFM and the fierce economic pulls and pushes of American mercantilism by the end of the nineteenth century. The different uses of India become a way of refining an American national identity.

The Huddled Masses Myth

The Huddled Masses Myth
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Publisher : Temple University Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781592137923
ISBN-13 : 159213792X
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The Huddled Masses Myth by : Kevin Johnson

The disconnect between national rhetoric, the law, and public policy.

Politics Beyond Black and White

Politics Beyond Black and White
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9781108425988
ISBN-13 : 1108425984
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Politics Beyond Black and White by : Lauren Davenport

This book investigates the social and political implications of the US multiracial population, which has surged in recent decades.

Racial Innocence

Racial Innocence
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9780807020135
ISBN-13 : 0807020133
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Racial Innocence by : Tanya Katerí Hernández

“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.

Real American

Real American
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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9781250137753
ISBN-13 : 1250137756
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Real American by : Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Courageous, achingly honest." —Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness “A compelling, incisive and thoughtful examination of race, origin and what it means to be called an American. Engaging, heartfelt and beautifully written, Lythcott-Haims explores the American spectrum of identity with refreshing courage and compassion.” —Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption A fearless memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a black woman in America. Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called "micro" aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims’s path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered "the other." The author of the New York Times bestselling anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims has written a different sort of book this time out, but one that will nevertheless resonate with the legions of students, educators and parents to whom she is now well known, by whom she is beloved, and to whom she has always provided wise and necessary counsel about how to embrace and nurture their best selves. Real American is an affecting memoir, an unforgettable cri de coeur, and a clarion call to all of us to live more wisely, generously and fully.

Loving

Loving
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9780807058275
ISBN-13 : 0807058270
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Loving by : Sheryll Cashin

The landmark story of 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.