Miscegenation is the relationships or interbreeding of individuals of different races. The miscegenation laws were intended to enforce racial segregation in relationships and intermarriage. Many of these laws prohibited “both interracial sex and interracial marriage, but nearly as twice targeted only marriage” (Pascoe, 1996, p. 8). The applicable theme for miscegenation is Culture and Society (CUL). Miscegenation and its laws focus on the beliefs and social mores of society toward racial integration. Miscegenation is a racial ideology whose history helps shape “many of today’s arguments about the meaning of race in American history” (Pascoe, 1996, p. 6). This idea can help trace the changes in 19th century racism and the modern ideologies.
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Virginia case is significant to the racial segregation laws because it declared the Virginia miscegenation law unconstitutional. It combined the past arguments presented in other cases, bringing attention to the case, leading the Supreme Court to hear the appeal. The court was no longer accepted the idea of past racial ideologies, “they accepted the divisions between culture and biology and culture and race” (Pascoe, 1996, p. 25). This court case truly showed the distance traveled to the twentieth-century American court. It was the Loving v. Virginia which cause the Supreme court to realize that the miscegenation laws were clearly meant to maintain White supremacy. In effect, the Court concluded that to end White supremacy they had to end racial categories. Race no longer defined the human difference, rather it was
Virginia case is significant to the racial segregation laws because it declared the Virginia miscegenation law unconstitutional. It combined the past arguments presented in other cases, bringing attention to the case, leading the Supreme Court to hear the appeal. The court was no longer accepted the idea of past racial ideologies, “they accepted the divisions between culture and biology and culture and race” (Pascoe, 1996, p. 25). This court case truly showed the distance traveled to the twentieth-century American court. It was the Loving v. Virginia which cause the Supreme court to realize that the miscegenation laws were clearly meant to maintain White supremacy. In effect, the Court concluded that to end White supremacy they had to end racial categories. Race no longer defined the human difference, rather it was