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- Loving : interracial intimacy in America and the threat to white supremacy / by Cashin, Sheryll,author.(CARDINAL)468245;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-225) and index.Part One. Before Loving, 1607-1939 -- Going Native : Virginia's First Lovers and Haters -- Sex, Love and Rebellion in Early Colonial Virginia -- Slavery Begets Anti-Miscegenation and White Supremacy -- Miscegenation, Dog-Whistling and the Spread of Supremacy -- Part Two. Loving -- Loving v. Virginia (1967) -- Part Three. After Loving -- 2017 : Interracial Intimacy and the Threat to and Persistence of White Supremacy -- More Loving : Families and Friendship -- The Future : The Rise of the Culturally Dexterous.Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. 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. Cashin argues that over the course of the last four centuries there have been "ardent integrators" and that those people are today contributing to the emergence of a class of "culturally dexterous" Americans. In the fifty years since the Lovings won their case, approval for interracial marriage rose from 4 percent to 87 percent. Cashin speculates that rising rates of interracial intimacy--including cross-racial adoption, romance, and friendship--combined with immigration, demographic, and generational change, will create an ascendant coalition of culturally dexterous whites and people of color. Loving is both a history of white supremacy and a hopeful treatise on the future of race relations in America, challenging 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.- Subjects: Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Loving, Richard Perry; Loving, Mildred Jeter; Interracial marriage; Miscegenation (Racist theory); Interracial dating; Multiracial families; Interracial friendship; Intimacy (Psychology); White supremacy movements;
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- White fright : the sexual panic at the heart of America's racist history / by Dailey, Jane Elizabeth,1963-author.(CARDINAL)684157;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Origins of white fright -- Fighting for justice -- Protecting "Racial Purity" -- The United States of Lyncherdom -- "Nobody is asking for social equality" -- What the Negro wants -- Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow -- The "second front" -- "Will the peace bring racial peace" -- Brotherhood -- White supremacy in peril -- Architects of a better world -- Grappling with Brown -- Breaching the inner shrine -- Death groans from a dying system -- Conclusion: The fall, without a whimper, of an empire."In White Fright, acclaimed historian Jane Dailey offers a radical reinterpretation of the fight for African American rights, showing how that fight has been closely bound, both in terms of law and in the white imagination, to the question of interracial sex and marriage. White fear of black sexuality not only fueled the systems of exclusion and oppression under Jim Crow, she contends it was also a central factor driving white resistance to the civil rights movement. Sex, love, and marriage were in fact the lynchpin of white supremacist fear and ideology. In the course of this gripping and urgent investigation, Dailey examines how white fears played out in the battles over lynching, in criticisms of black troops' behavior overseas in France and England during WWII, in the violent reactions of whites following the Brown v. Board decision, and in the aftermath of the eventual Loving v. Virginia ruling, which finally declared marriage a "fundamental freedom." Placing sex at the center of civil rights history, White Fright offers a bold and insightful new take on one of the darkest threads running through American history"--- Subjects: Miscegenation (Racist theory); Interracial marriage; African Americans; African Americans; White people; White supremacy movements; African Americans; Civil rights movements;
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