Loving Lessons: White Supremacy, Loving v. Virginia, and Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System

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dc.contributor.authorHill, Leah H.
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-06T18:01:34Z
dc.date.available2018-08-06T18:01:34Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis Article looks back at the anti-miscegenation laws that were at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Loving v. Virginia to reveal what they teach us about the current overrepresentation of black children in the American child welfare system. It is widely accepted that antimiscegenation laws worked to preserve white supremacy — particularly, the superiority of white people to blacks — but these laws also worked to forestall the creation of interracial families. Moreover, laws banning interracial marriage were said to prevent children from suffering harm caused by race mixing. Thus, these laws were viewed by supporters as preventing child abuse. By focusing on the harm — or “damage” — of being biracial, these laws foreshadowed the pervasive disproportionality in the child welfare system today. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationHill, Leah H. (2018). Loving Lessons: White Supremacy, Loving v. Virginia, and Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System. Fordham Law Review, 86(6), 2727-2737.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://fordhamlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/05_Murray-2671-2700.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3902
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherFordham Law Reviewen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectpreventionen_US
dc.subjectchild protectionen_US
dc.subjectlawen_US
dc.subjectbiracialen_US
dc.subjectdiscriminationen_US
dc.subjectlegal opinionen_US
dc.titleLoving Lessons: White Supremacy, Loving v. Virginia, and Disproportionality in the Child Welfare Systemen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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