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Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History
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by Peter Wallenstein
Sales Rank: 89129
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Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan January 17, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1403964084
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1403964083
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 13.6 ounces
From Booklist
Wallenstein uses the 1967 Loving case, in which a Virginia couple challenged laws against interracial marriage, as a pivot point for looking at racial definitions and relations in the U.S. By its ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court finally outlawed so-called antimiscegenation laws and amended the patchwork of laws stating who was black or white and what constituted interracial marriage. Wallenstein compellingly traces the legal intersection between race and sex from the pre-Civil War focus on liaisons between black men and white women to later concerns about the inheritance implications of white former masters acknowledging their children born of slave women. He also looks at the social intricacies affecting the evolution of the legal meaning of black. Because laws varied from state to state--and even within a state--couples such as the Lovings found themselves living in a legal limbo. But Wallenstein also appropriately explores the changes in social attitudes that saw racial definitions move from fluid to rigid and to the current state of increasing racial and ethnic diversity that defies easy definition. Vernon Ford
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Product Review
"For he has unearthed many true stories that make the reader's heart ache for the sufferings of real people"-Harriet P. Gross, Dallas Morning News
"Wallenstein compellingly traces the legal intersection between race and sex"--Booklist
"His compelling analysis delivers a superb legal history of interracial marriagefilling a remarkable void in the literature"--Library Journal
"a comprehensive, almost encyclopedic, history of the law of interracial marriage in America"--Paul Moreno, History: Reviews of New Books
“Tell the Court I Love My Wife is a remarkable study by a splendid scholar who takes a fresh look at the history of miscegenation. Peter Wallenstein’s impressive research and lively writing explores issues and questions of racial identity, marriage and property rights, law and power in the long sweep of American history. All Americans who believe that the right to marry someone of a different racial identity is sacrosanct need to read this spirited and thoughtful book.”--Darlene Clark Hine, Michigan State University and co-editor of Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
Reader Reviews
Take time to google some of the people in this book and you see another whole layer unfold in this story. I enjoyed the life they lived of honor and dignity. I didn't read about them hating family or neighbors but of working hard to bring dignity to what they had created. Amazing how the opinions of people depending on what society is facing can change so quickly. Additionally, you might want to look for some of the descendents on Ancestry to chat with and you'll even get more insight.
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