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    From Loving v. Virginia To Barack Obama: The Symbolic Tie That Binds

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    From Loving v. Virginia To Barack Obama: The Symbolic Tie That Binds

    Authors
    Daniel, G. Reginald; Kelekay, Jasmine

    Journal
    Creighton Law Review

    Volume
    50

    Issue
    3

    Pages
    641-668

    Date
    2017
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    INTRODUCTION

    The year 2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia, which declared anti-miscegenation laws to be unconstitutional. For many, the Loving decision represents a symbolic turning point in the history of United States racial politics. Some even celebrate the Loving decision and the argued subsequent "biracial baby boom" as the beginning of a post-racial United States. Indeed, statistics indicating that fifteen percent of all new marriages are interracial and polls suggesting that a majority of Americans today approve of interracial marriage are cited as evidence of the erosion of racial boundaries and tensions...
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