In this article, I use state-level anti-miscegenation legislation to examine how Asian ethnic groups became categorized within the American racial system in the period between the Civil War and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. I show how the labels used to describe Asian ethnic groups at the state level reflected and were constrained by national-level debates regarding the groups eligible for U.S. citizenship. My main point is that Asian ethnic groups originally were viewed as legally distinct-racially and ethnically, and that members of these groups recognized and used these distinctions to seek social rights and privileges. The construction of "Asian" as a social category resulted primarily from congressional legislation and judicial rulings that linked immigration with natural...
For those of you who may have noticed that the word "alleged" is used (as in "an alleged African tribe of hairy women"), be advised that it didn't appear in the definition of an earlier version. In the 1973 version of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary the definition of "gorilla" reads: "An African tribe of hairy women." The Oxford English Dictionary makes sure we don't confine our understanding of the word "gorilla" to primarily black women. It adds: "A person who resembles a gorilla." Since gorillas are outwardly dark, could they possibly mean a big black man? This definition isn't entirely honest. What "miscegenation" really means is marriage (or even just sex!) between a white person and a black person. Oh, by the way, "mis-" means "bad," so, "miscegenation" literally means "bad ra...
Early on, children of color tend to "blank out" on what they perceive to be "white culture," irrespective of anomalies such as choosing white dolls, hair straightening and deferring to white people interchangeably as authority and derogatory figures, depending on the circumstance of an encounter. Before children of color are taught, through school curriculums, that they are descendants of slaves and miscegenation, they must learn ancient African history up to the Trans-Atlantic African Slave Trade Without connectivity to the ancestors, these children will become another miseducated and lost generation of "colored people. Before children of color are taught, through school curriculums, that they are descendants of slaves and miscegenation, they must learn ancient African history up to t...
>Folk Nanci Griffith, "The Loving Kind" (Rounder). After dabbling in torch songs and ornate classic pop, Nanci Griffith makes a strong return to her country-folk roots with "The Loving Kind." A subtle, understated collection of tunes centered around Griffith's wispy but deeply affecting singing, the album is also notable for the breadth of topical songs the singer tackles with quiet determination and poise. Prominent among them is the album's title song, which offers a compassionate take on the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, a white man and African-American woman who were jailed and subsequently forced to leave their native Virginia after marrying in the early '60s. Griffith's take on the absurdity of miscegenation laws a mere 40 years back also deftly suggests that today's laws r...
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