Keywords
family law; race; civil rights
Abstract
Part I analyzes the Loving decision striking down antimiscegenation laws and examines the segregationists’ justifications for antimiscegenation laws. Next, Part II explores the historical opposition of white segregationists to interracial marriages, families, and children and argues that the principle and practice of endogamy is a central feature of Jim Crow segregation. Finally, Part III examines the present ideology of white nationalism and shows that white nationalists oppose interracial unions and families for some of the same reasons that white segregationists opposed them. Specifically, white nationalists oppose interracial families because they are one of the main factors contributing to the so-called genocide of the white race.
Recommended Citation
Reginald Oh,
Fear of a Multiracial Planet: Loving’s Children and the Genocide of the White Race,
86 Fordham L. Rev. 2761
(2018).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol86/iss6/11