Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage

Maillard, Kevin Noble ed.

ISBN 10: 0521147980 / ISBN 13: 9780521147989

Published by Cambridge University Prerss, Cambridge England, 2012

About this Item

This volume collects the essays of an impressive array of leading scholars analyzing from virtually all angles a monumental U.S. Supreme Court decision that broke down one of the last bastions of de jure segregation in Jim Crow America. Destined to becoming the definitive collection of essays on Loving v. Virginia, the chapters offer deep insights about race and civil rights in the twenty-first century. This copy is in excellent condition, a first printing with the bright paperback cover in bright wrap. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage
• Publisher: Cambridge University Prerss, Cambridge England
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521147980
• ISBN 13: 9780521147989
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving vs. Virginia. Although this case promotes marital freedom and racial equality, there are still significant legal and social barriers to the free formation of intimate relationships. Marriage continues to be the sole measure of commitment, mixed relationships continue to be rare, and same-sex marriage is only legal in 6 out of 50 states. Most discussion of Loving celebrates the symbolic dismantling of marital discrimination. This book, however, takes a more critical approach to ask how Loving has influenced the “loving” of America. How far have we come since then, and what effect did the case have on individual lives?

About the Authors

Kevin Noble Maillard is an Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University where he teaches family law, trusts and estates and on the subjects of children and the law, adoption, and popular culture and the law. He has written about and lectured on nontraditional families, racial intermixture, the role of marriage in America, civil liberties within the family, and popular culture and the law. His work has been published in the New York Times, Cardozo Law Review, SMU Law Review, Fordham Law Review and Law and Inequality. He is a frequent presenter at legal and interdisciplinary conferences.

Rose Cuison Villazor is an Associate Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School. She teaches and writes in the areas of race, citizenship, property and immigration law. Her articles have appeared in the New York University Law Review, California Law Review, Washington University Law Review and Southern California Law Review. In 2011, she received the AALS Minority Section Derrick A. Bell, Jr Award, which is given to a junior faculty member who, through activism, mentoring, teaching and scholarship, has made an extraordinary contribution to legal education, the legal system or social justice.