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The True Story of 'Loving' and the History of Racial Passing


Racial Passing in Advertisements for Runaway Slaves and the ... - jstor

that have not vanished in our own era. Historical Overview: From Racial. Migration to Racial Fixity. Fields argues that the laws that marked African or ...

The Tragic Mulatta Trope: Complexities of Representation, Identity ...

... Passing, “is the sympathy which. Larsen shows not for Irene, who remains true to her racial origins except for brief excursions, but for Clare, who betrays ...

Passing (Chapter 10) - Race in American Literature and Culture

The literary trope of passing is rooted in the historical realities of the racial and sexual exploitation of slavery, as well as in the legal fiction of the ...

A History of Racial Passing in the United States

Sarah: The history of racial passing – a Black person passing as white, as we'll mostly be focusing on – reveals a great deal about race in ...

I'm Half Black, and Passing as White Has a Complicated History

The author of a new novel about one mother's search for her children in the aftermath of enslavement, reflects on her own family's history ...

Why I Collect Racist Objects - Jim Crow Museum

The passing of a century and a half affords the typical American enough "psychological space" to deal with slavery; when that is not sufficient, a sanitized ...

The Racial Integrity Act, 1924: An Attack on Indigenous Identity

Virginia case. Richard Loving, a white male, and Mildred Jeter, a woman with both African American and Native American ancestry, had left Virginia to get ...

In Nella Larsen's "Passing," Whiteness Isn't Just About Race

Passing is a work of fiction, but it is a true story about the world in which its author, Nella Larsen, lived. To describe it simply as a ...

Sandweiss unearths a compelling tale of secret racial identity

By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann on Dec. 17, 2009, 1:19 p.m.. Sandweiss. In her book “Passing Strange,” history professor Martha Sandweiss uncovers the secret ...

IHS Roundtable: Loving v. Virginia After 50 Years - Not Even Past

Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage, and Jeff Nichols, the director and screen writer of Loving, the 2016 ...

Loving Day: The legal victory that opened the door to interracial ...

The union landed the Lovings in jail, and then before the U.S. Supreme Court, and finally in the history books; 40 years ago Tuesday, the court ...

Mildred Loving, Who Battled Ban on Mixed-Race Marriage, Dies at 68

Mildred Delores Jeter's family had lived in Caroline County, Va., for generations, as had the family of Richard Perry Loving. The area was known ...

I thought I was White until I learned my mother's secret. The census ...

I'd just related my mother's story of racial passing. How she and her New Orleans family were designated as “Negro” during the Jim Crow era, how ...

Rebecca Hall on race, regret and her personal history: 'In any family ...

It is an emotionally resonant study of racial identity, seen through the eyes of two Black women, Irene (played by Tessa Thompson) and Clare ( ...

Rachel Dolezal: why ignoring the painful past of "passing" is ...

In fear of their secret being discovered, they raised Marion strictly, not only without history but also without free play, friends, family and ...

A Chosen Exile - Harvard University Press

This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed ...

New Movie 'Passing' Based on Novel by Chicago Author Explores ...

The new Netflix movie “Passing” centers around two Black women who can both “pass” as white but take different paths, one choosing to live ...

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Hollywood's Misrepresentation ...

This film focused on the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving, a black ... racism and avoids the oppressive history of African-American exploitation ...

Documenting Reconstruction Violence - Equal Justice Initiative

In 2015, the Equal Justice Initiative issued a new report that detailed over 4,400 documented racial terror lynchings of Black people in America between 1877 ...

Right To Loving: This Couple Scrapped U.S. Infamous Anti ... - Medium

For a country established by immigrants, the United States had a long history of racial discrimination. The segregation between white and ...