Add to ORKGThis paper examines Virginia\u27s Racial Purity Laws enacted to deny equal opportunity to black men and women who could pass as whites from the early 1600s to the U. S. Supreme Court decision (Loving v. Virginia) in 1967. When physical characteristics failed to match the legal definition of race, the state used records of vital statistics for boundary maintenance. Birth certificates, in particular, served as internal passports to school assignments, work eligibility, and marriage, denying citizens defined as Negro life chances available to whites. It was also found that over time the definition of Negro was expanded to include citizens with smaller proportions of African or even Native American blood in their ancestry. An exam...
Despite the prevailing national discourse that implicates race as an outdated phenomenon, ongoing so...
From the end of the eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century, demographic changes reformulate...
America’s post-George Floyd racial reckoning has brought a new focus on the country’s history of ens...
During the early twentieth century, a movement influenced by the tenets of Social Darwinism took roo...
In 1924, the Virginia General Assembly passed both The Racial Integrity Act and The Sterilization Ac...
Spencer v. Looney was one of dozens of cases decided in the eras of slavery and segregation that hi...
This paper analyzes how the language used in 17th-century laws and court cases refers to enslaved Af...
Most scholarship on Loving v. Virginia (1967) briefly mentions the “Pocahontas Exception,” a subsect...
In the historical debate over the legitimation of Virginian black slavery in the seventeenth century...
For over a century, many Americans believed that interracial marriage was unnatural. From the late 1...
“The Pocahontas Exception” confronts the legal existence and cultural fascination with the eponymous...
The courts must bear a heavy share of the burden of American racism. An outpouring of historical sch...
This study is about how ideology was used to create a nefarious cultural representation of Africans ...
This Article contends that segregationist justifications for miscegenation and segregation laws show...
Historically, Virginia's indigenous Indian tribes have been subsumed under non-Indian racial categor...
Despite the prevailing national discourse that implicates race as an outdated phenomenon, ongoing so...
From the end of the eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century, demographic changes reformulate...
America’s post-George Floyd racial reckoning has brought a new focus on the country’s history of ens...
During the early twentieth century, a movement influenced by the tenets of Social Darwinism took roo...
In 1924, the Virginia General Assembly passed both The Racial Integrity Act and The Sterilization Ac...
Spencer v. Looney was one of dozens of cases decided in the eras of slavery and segregation that hi...
This paper analyzes how the language used in 17th-century laws and court cases refers to enslaved Af...
Most scholarship on Loving v. Virginia (1967) briefly mentions the “Pocahontas Exception,” a subsect...
In the historical debate over the legitimation of Virginian black slavery in the seventeenth century...
For over a century, many Americans believed that interracial marriage was unnatural. From the late 1...
“The Pocahontas Exception” confronts the legal existence and cultural fascination with the eponymous...
The courts must bear a heavy share of the burden of American racism. An outpouring of historical sch...
This study is about how ideology was used to create a nefarious cultural representation of Africans ...
This Article contends that segregationist justifications for miscegenation and segregation laws show...
Historically, Virginia's indigenous Indian tribes have been subsumed under non-Indian racial categor...
Despite the prevailing national discourse that implicates race as an outdated phenomenon, ongoing so...
From the end of the eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century, demographic changes reformulate...
America’s post-George Floyd racial reckoning has brought a new focus on the country’s history of ens...