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Loving | Sheryll Cashin
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How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics. 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 U.S. 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 non-white 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 always been "ardent integrators" who are now 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% to 87%. 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 a culture where acceptance and difference are celebrated.
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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If you can‘t buy, then borrow! Authors benefit from Kobo, Scribd, Kindle Unlimited, and library borrows. I‘m especially focused on black women authors right now.

#blacklivesmatter #blackoutbestsellerlist #blackpublishingpower #diversevoices

Megabooks I‘ve bought several over the past two weeks, but I want to give a preorder to Morgan for sure 4y
rwmg I just bought 4y
rwmg I didn't know you could borrow for this, so I borrowed from Scribd (edited) 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @rwmg Both of your choices are so interesting! 4y
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