Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University, is author of The Agitator's Daughter, The Failures of Integration, and Place, Not Race. She is a frequent commentator on law and race relations, appearing on NPR, CNN, ABC News, and MSNBC. Cashin was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and served in the Clinton White House as an advisor on urban and economic policy.
"A concise, powerful reflection on the 50th anniversary of the
landmark case."
--Kirkus Reviews
"A timely and illuminating account of a struggle that lies at
the heart of the American story."
--Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman
"In this sweeping history of what was formerly known as
'miscegenation, ' Sheryll Cashin beautifully unfolds the history of
interracial intimacy from the earliest days of the colonies until
the current reemergence of the white supremacy movement. At the
center of this narrative, Cashin places the Loving v.
Virginia Supreme Court case of 1967 which finally overturned
all statutes penalizing interracial marriages. Through a
wonderfully readable set of stories, including references to
popular culture, Cashin provides an accessible, essential, and
ultimately hopeful view of racial relationships in America."
--Henry Louis Gates Jr. "White supremacy has long foiled love, and
love has long foiled white supremacy. Sheryll Cashin offers us this
essential historical revelation in Loving. This fascinating
and accessible story puts the fifty-year-old Loving v.
Virginia decision in much-needed historical perspective and
shares its unknown post-history. In the end, Loving offers
an optimistic showpiece of the possibilities of an antiracist
America divorced from white supremacy where 'dexterous' acceptors
of difference can marry, can befriend, can love the identical
hearts under our different-looking skins. Loving gives us
the historical tools and urges us to renew our old fight for the
human right to love."
--Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The
Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America "Cashin makes a
compelling argument that interracial intimacy, though in and of
itself inadequate for eradicating white supremacy, contributes to a
racial dexterity the likes of which will be crucial to that task in
years to come. With rich historicity and sharp analysis, she
explores the ways in which interracial romance has long served as a
bogeyman for racists but is now helping to create a critical mass
of whites who may, finally, see fit to join with their black and
brown partners, lovers, friends, and colleagues to forge a new and
better nation."
--Tim Wise, author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a
Privileged Son and Dear White America: Letter to a New
Minority "Sheryll Cashin tells a historical story that is at
times chilling, at times heartening, and always astonishing. But
it's her vision of the future, embodied in Cashin's term 'cultural
dexterity, ' that makes Loving something even greater: a
road map to a bright American future."
--Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of
Prohibition
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