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- Title
Legal Fictions Exposed.
- Authors
Boris, Eileen
- Abstract
The article discusses U.S. laws regarding interracial marriage and miscegenation, often focusing on how these issues were dealt with by historian Peggy Pascoe in her book "What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America." The author reminds the reader that miscegenation laws affected people of various ethnicities and nationalities, not just African Americans. White fears of miscegenation affected the integration of U.S. schools and fair employment efforts. Emphasis is given to the consequences of such laws on citizenship rights, notions of racial purity, and the perceived taboo of sexual relations between African American men and white women.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MISCEGENATION laws; INTERRACIAL marriage -- Social aspects; PASCOE, Peggy; WHAT Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law &; the Making of Race in America (Book); UNITED States citizenship; SOCIAL conditions of American women; LEGAL status of multiracial people; SOCIAL conditions of African American men; LAW
- Publication
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2010, Vol 31, Issue 3, p6
- ISSN
0160-9009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5250/fronjwomestud.31.3.0006