Sheryll Cashin
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"Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark decision of Loving v. Virginia ended bans on interracial marriage and remains a signature case--the first to use the words "white supremacy" to describe such racism. Drawing...
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The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all colors propagated "ghetto" myths to justify concentrating poverty in the hood and creating high-opportunity white spaces. In White Space, Black Hood, law professor and historian Sheryll Cashin traces the history of anti-Black residential caste to demonstrate how the government-created "ghetto"...