Peter Wallenstein
Autor de Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History
Sobre El Autor
Peter Wallenstein is an award-winning professor of history at Virginia Tech. His many other books include Race, Sec, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia, also published by the University Press of Kansas.
Obras de Peter Wallenstein
Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia (2004) 12 copias
Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia (Landmark Law Cases & American Society) (2014) 12 copias
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1944-05-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- East Orange, New Jersey, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- East Orange, New Jersey, USA
- Educación
- Johns Hopkins University (PhD|1973)
Columbia University (AB|1966) - Ocupaciones
- historian
university professor - Organizaciones
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Organization of American Historians
Southern History Association - Premios y honores
- American History Association fellowship (1983)
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities fellowship (1989)
Virginia Historical Society fellowship (1990)
American History Association fellowship (1991)
Virginia Historical Society fellowships (1991)
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities fellowship (1992) (mostrar todos 8)
East Tennessee Historical Society. McClung Award (1992)
Virginia School Science Association. Mario D. Zamora Distinguished Service Award (1996)
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- Obras
- 9
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 129
- Popularidad
- #156,299
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 23
This was a superb book on the history antimisecegenation laws, or antiamalgamation laws, as they were originally called. It focuses on Virginia and on the Loving case, which led to the Supreme Court overturning all such laws, but covers all states and all times since the American colonial era. Wallenstein also mentions a few cases in other countries, as well as similar controversies about same-sex marriages.
I found it a wonderfully informative book, and learned a number of things I didn't know. For one thing, the definition of "races" has varied across the country and throughout time. One unfortunte white woman married a "white" man as her second husband, and came close to losing her children when their stepfather was reclassified as "black." I had never understood the subtle change, probably affected by Brown vs Board of Education, that it was not sufficient for the states to treat various racial identities the same in forbidding marriages. They now had to be color-blind. And marriage came to be regarded as a fundamental right, meaning that the burden of the proof was on the state for justifying forbidding them. And I now have a better understanding of issue of whether the decisions are legislative or consitutional, i.e., to be decided by the courts.
Occasionally, I wished that Wallenstein had been a trifle more precise. Did the clause that led to Vermont's civil unions for homosexuals refer specifically to them? Were they therefore a protected class? Wallenstein is not neutral on the subject, he himself is in a "mixed" marriage, but the book is still even-handed and useful.
The format of the notes are done so that it is easy to match it with the text. There is no separate bibliography, but the citations in the notes are well done, and Wallenstein has helpfully included material for further reading with regard to certain topics. The indexing seems to be pretty thorough. There are charts and maps showing the status of miscegenation laws at various times.
This has done a great deal for me in clearing up issues relating marriages for transsexuals and homosexuals, etc.
Black, white, other : biracial Americans talk about race and identity by Lisa Funderburg is a very interesting series of interviews with contemporary black/white interracial people.… (más)