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According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander V. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family

According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander V. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family

Onwuachi-Willig, Angela

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0300166826
ISBN13: 9780300166828
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jun 25 2013
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.51
Language: English

This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. According to Our Hearts begins with a look back at a 1925 case in which a two-month marriage ends with a man suing his wife for misrepresentation of her race, and shows how our society has yet to come to terms with interracial marriage. Angela Onwuachi-Willig examines the issue by drawing from a variety of sources, including her own experiences. She argues that housing law, family law, and employment law fail, in important ways, to protect multiracial couples. In a society in which marriage is used to give, withhold, and take away status--in the workplace and elsewhere--she says interracial couples are at a disadvantage, which is only exacerbated by current law.

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