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Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

di Sheryll Cashin

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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.… (altro)
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I really enjoyed the first half of the book and found it very informative how anti-miscegenation laws were employed to uphold white supremacy. Their eventual dismantlement in the Loving v. Virginia case was the focal point around which the book is centered.

The second half of the book I found to be utopian and unrealistic, especially in light of the utter decimation of the Voting Rights Act and the rampant disenfranchisement of people of color and poor voters.

In fact, races living in closer proximity to each other ignores the history of red-lining and other methods used to keep Black folks out of predominantly white spaces, and on the other end of the spectrum ignores the gentrification that occurs when white folks start taking over Black spaces.

There is a deeper problem that cannot be fixed by just waiting for old people to die. There are plenty of young racists, and because white supremacy is literally baked into this country's DNA, eliminating it is going to take more active work and resistance. ( )
  lemontwist | Jul 9, 2021 |
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  Steve_Walker | Sep 13, 2020 |
Legislating love in the land of the free

“It is stupid, how trapped this great country is, by the architecture of division,” says Sheryll Cashin in Loving. There appears to be no bottom to the depredations of American abuse of nonwhite non-Christians. Her book traces them from the naïve acceptance by natives of British “pilgrims” to the absurd cases where mixed race marriage was against the law, and into the future, when this nightmare might finally dissipate.

Until fifty years ago, it was illegal for whites to marry women of other races in 41 states. The states had to define what exactly white was, and what all the other colors were. For many southern states, a single drop of nonwhite blood in the veins was enough. And they kept records on every individual to prove it. Some states outlawed sex between races. It was only in 1967 that the Supreme Court called it what it really was – White Supremacy – and declared it illegal. It was the Loving case, where a couple by that name had to fight their way out of being exiled and banned from their home state of Virginia for 25 years. For the crime of marriage.

As outrageous as it might sound today, America was resplendent with such laws:
-Maryland law required a free woman marrying a slave to become a slave herself, along with their future children. And the owners were fined for good measure.
-Virginia law prohibited sex between the free and slaves, except for owners, who could fornicate at will. 20% of illegitimate children were mixed race.
-Ministers could be fined 10,000 pounds of tobacco for performing a mixed race marriage.

Cashin writes in a clear, direct style, massaging and rationalizing nothing. The unvarnished facts are offensive enough on their own. She is refreshingly candid without being vindictive. The book moves swiftly and effectively, revolting without overwhelming. Where it’s her opinion, she says so. Where it’s her own experience, she says so. Where it’s blatant stupidity, she says so. It is a swift, direct lesson in the depths, studded with stats and historical facts often in the form of absurd, racist laws beyond dispute. Racism is institutional in the USA. And it is ingrained in individuals today, even without their intent, as Cashin demonstrates.

Cashin’s grinding recital of moral failures comes out remarkably positive. Today, 3.3% of marriages in Virginia are black/white. It leads the nation. As more and more mixed race couples appear in television series and in commercials, as more and more university dorms force students to work and live with each other, mixed race families are becoming unremarkable. Online dating is melting the barriers. By 2050, 20% of Americans will be multiracial. Cashin hopes they become a major force for normalcy, much as same sex marriage has become acceptable of late. It is a surprisingly hopeful ending to a 350 year disaster.

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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.

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