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

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

Name: Loving V. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage
Price: 64.32 GBP
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Author: Kevin Noble Maillard
ISBN: 9780521198585

by Kevin Noble Maillard, Rose Cuison Villazor

Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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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?