2002/01/01 by Julie Novkov · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Race, History, and American Society #American History and Culture #Latin American and Latino Studies #Civil rights #Politics #Race (biology) #State (computer science) #Political science #Legal status #Law #Proxy (statistics) #Spanish Civil War #Gender studies #Sociology #Criminology
paper · doi:10.2307/744035
openalex publication_date 2002/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
For over one hundred years—from the post–Civil War era to the post–Civil Rights era—the state of Alabama maintained a legal and social commitment to keeping blacks and whites from engaging in long-term sexual relationships with each other. Recent studies addressing the laws that barred miscegenation have shown that investigating governmental reactions to intimate interracial connections reveals much about the interplay between legal and social definitions of race as well as about the development of whiteness as a proxy for superior social, political, and legal status.